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HISTORY 



OF 



ROUND LAKE, 



SARATOGA COUNTY, 



N. Y, 



'•'OCT 11887^ ' 



Arthur James Weise, M.A., 



AUTHOR OF THE 



History of the City of Troy, N. Y. ; Discoveries of America to the year 

1^2^ ; History of the City of Albany, N. V. ; 

Troy and its Vicinity. 



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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by 

Arthur James Weise, 

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



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PREFACE. 



As shown in the initial pages of this work, the French were the 
first explorers of the vast forest-clad region between the Mohawk 
and St. Lawrence rivers. The name, Saintonge, given it by Samuel 
de Champlain, in 1609, has, as I believe, been corrupted by mis- 
pronunciation into that of Saratoga. The so-called Indian name, 
Xayarossos, designating a part of its territory, is also derived from 
.he French. 

The information presented on tlie succeeding pages was obtained 
with considerable painstaking, particularly the numerous names 
which appear in the foot-notes. The publication of the work has 
been approved and sanctioned by the Round Lake Association. 

It is a great pleasure to me to mention and acknowledge the 
generous courtesies of the Rev. William Griffin, D.D., the Rev. 
Joseph E. King, D.D., and the Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.I)., and the 
helpful favors of Joseph Hillman, and the kind ofiices of John I). 
Rogers. 

ARTHUR JAMES WEISE. 

Troy, N. Y., August 8th, 1887. 



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The scenery of the valley of the Upper Hudson between Troy 
and Saratoga is bordered easterly by the distant range of the Green 
Mountains and a wide foreground of undulating hills. Westerly a 
continuity of high land limits the view of the,open country beyond. 
The landscape along the river dispreads itself in brooky meadows, 
arable fields, and short stretches of woodland. As far as Mechanic- 
ville, the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad runs between the Cham- 
plain Canal and the Hudson. North of the village, the road, by a 
reverse curve like the letter S, bends westwardly around the south 
side of Round Lake, and passing the station extends northwesterly 
to Ballston Spa. 

Round Lake, three miles in circumference, is picturesquely 
environed by gently sloping hills, woody knolls, and grassy meadows. 
Long Lake, four miles westward, disembogues by an outlet into 
Round Lake, which discharges its water through Anthony's Kill 
into the Hudson, seven miles eastward. 

The grounds of the Round Lake Association, about two hundred 
acres of land, lying west of the lake, are in the town of Malta, in 
Saratoga County, New York, nineteen miles from Troy, seven from 
Mechanicville, six from Ballston Spa, and thirteen from Saratoga 
Springs. The highway on the east side of the grounds runs through 
Maltaville, a mile northeast of them, and through Jonesville, three 
miles southwestward. 

The sun-flecked depths of the cottage-clustered wood are entered 
by broad avenues diverging from the gateways at the passenger 
station on the east side of the railroad. Narrow lawns brightly 



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bedded with flowers border these approaches and the paths extend- 
ing from them. Beyond the prettily-built summer homes along the 
west side of the majestic grove appear others of varied architecture 
embowered by the branches of the tall trees surrounding them. In 
the central part of this sylvan retreat is a large pavilion with thou- 
sands of sittings for the people attending the religious meetings, 
summer schools, Sunday school assemblies, lectures, oratorios, 
exhibitions, and concerts held there in the summer. Conspicuously 
fronting the north lawn is the admirably-arranged and finely-fur- 
nished Hotel Wentworth. Farther northward, in a leafy recess of 
great oaks and fragrant evergreens, is the handsomely-built Griffin 
Institute, which, in all its elaborate features, fitly expresses the 
unstinted generosity of the highly-esteemed president of the Round 
Lake Association. Near the hotel is the Round Lake mineral well, 
the sparkling water of which, as shown by analysis, is like that of 
the Congress fountain at Saratoga Springs. East of the wood, on a 
rise of ground commanding a wide prospect of the surrounding 
country and an extended view of the lake, is the George West 
Museum of Art and Archaeology, a finely-proportioned structure, 
given the association by its generous treasurer. Garnsey Hall, on 
Whitfield Avenue, and Kennedy Hall, on Peck Avenue, are also 
attractive edifices, gifts of the two benevolent women whose names 
the well-planned buildings bear. Alumni Hall, on Whitfield Avenue, 
is also a noticeable structure. 

Proprietary Titles of the Iroquois, French, Dutch, and 

English. 

Three centuries ago Round Lake lay within the extensive hunting 
grounds of the Iroquois or Mohawk Indians. Wild deer browsed in 
the sunny glades of the great forests environing it, and beavers built 
their dome-shaped lodges on its bosky banks. Water-fowl found it 
a haven of rest and refreshment, and in its quiet depths pickerel and 
other fish abounded. 

It was then geographically in New France, near the supposed 
source of the Grande River (the Hudson), discovered by Giovanni 
da Verrazzano, in 1524. The French had explored the noble 
stream as far northward as the site of Waterford, where they 
bartered for furs with the Mohawk and Mohegan Indians for many 
years. 

Gerard Mercator, the well-known deviser of the projection so 
serviceable to navigators, was one of the first cartographers to 



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delineate that part of New France, now the territory of New York. 
On the rare and highly valued map, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, in 
Paris, made by him in Duisburg, Germany, in 1569, the Grande 
River is outlined far beyond the height of its navigation at the 
mouths of the Mohawk. Several ranges of the Adirondack and 
Green Mountains seen from the high hills at Troy and Lansingburgh 
are also represented on it to show the natural configuration of the 
unexplored region in which the great river flowing southward to the 
sea has its rise. 

Forty years later, in the summer of 1609, Samuel de Champlain, 
the French explorer, penetrated the depths of the vast wilderness, 
between the St. Lawrence and Mohawk rivers, as far southward as 
the lake to which he gave his name. At that time the Algonquin 
Indians of Canada and the Iroquois of New France were at war, and 
the hunting-grounds of the latter were the field of many conflicts 
between the warriors of the two hostile tribes. As Champlain was 
informed by the Algonquins accompanying him, the distance over- 
land to the Grande River from the lake, now known as Lake George, 
was four leagues. The ambitious Frenchman called the region of 
country which he had explored Saintonge, the name of his native 
place in France. 

Two months later, Henry Hudson, the English navigator, ascended 
the Grande River in the " Half Moon." What he learned from the 
friendly Mohawks respecting the French fur traders is partly dis- 
closed in an inscription on a Dutch map made five years after the 
exploration of the Grande River, which the Dutch had called the 
Groote River. "As far as one can understand from what the 
Maquaas (Mohawks) say and sAow, the French come with sloops as 
high up as their country to trade with them."i 

After the English had dispossessed the Dutch of New Netherland 
and had given the name New York to a part of its territory, some 
of the prominent men of the province began to petition the English 
Crown to be privileged to buy from the Indians large tracts of land 
bordering the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. Among the number of 
petitioners was Samson Shelton Broughton, Attorney- General of the 
Province of New York, who, with those associated with him, was 
licensed April 2 2d, 1703, to purchase from the Mohawks " a certain 

1 Vide : The Discoveries of America to the year 1525, by Arthur James Weise, 
M. A.— G. P. Putnam's Sons, 18S4, Chaps. IX., X. and XI. 

The History of the City of Albany, New York, by Arthur James Weise, M. A. — 
E. H. Bender, 1884, Chap. I. 



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tract of vacant and unappropriated land, in the County of Albany, 
called or known by the Indian name of Kayarossos," adjoining the 
north bounds of Schenectady, and extending to the west bounds of 
Saratoga and to the Hudson River. Overtures were made to some 
of the Mohawk sachems, who conveyed, October 6th, 1704, as was 
estimated, from 250,000 to 300,000 acres of land to the persons 
interested in the purchase. The title to the property was con- 
firmed by a patent granted by Queen Anne, November 2d, 1708. 

The so-called Indian name, Kayarossos, or Kayadarossera, as it 
was written later, said to mean " the country of the lake of the 
crooked stream," is apparently of French origin, and is evidently a 
corruption by mispronunciation either of the two French words, 
pay arros^, a watered country, or of the three, pay des j'uisseaux, a 
country of streams. 

On the large map of Kayadarossera, made in 1770, and now in 
the office of the Secretary of State, in the Capitol, in Albany, Round 
Lake is delineated and designated by its descriptive name. The 
lake is represented as lying in section two of the ninth allotment. 

On some earlier maps the lake is similarly named. The English 
appellation. Round Lake, displaced the variously written one, Tio- 
noondehowa, Dionoondehowe, Tanendahowa, Shonandohowa,which, 
it is said, was given the lake by the Indians. 

First Camp-Meetings in the United States, 

" The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned 
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, 
And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed 
The lofty vault to gather and roll back 
The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, 
Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down 
And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks 
And supplications." 

No privilege was more heartily enjoyed by the widely-separated 
settlers cultivating farms in different parts of the United States at 
the beginning of this century than that of congregating in some 
accessible wood for a few days in warm weather to listen to the 
earnest preaching of a number of godly men. One of the earliest 
of the popular woods' meetings was held in 1799, on the banks of 
the Red River, in Kentucky. Two brothers, William and John 
McGee, both preachers, one a Presbyterian and the other a Method- 



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ist, came to the settlement there that year and assisted the Rev. 
James McGready, a Presbyterian minister, in conducting a series of 
rehgious services. The meeting-house was not large enough to 
contain all the people. The zealous men, unwilling to deny them- 
selves the opportunity of preaching to so many hearers, thereupon 
discoursed from a rudely-constructed platform in an adjacent forest, 
where the sojourning settlers slept in booths built of the leafy 
branches of trees or in the wagons in which they had come 
there. 

A year or two later the use of tents instead of booths by some of 
the people attending the woods' meetings obtained for them the 
name of camp-meetings. 

The first camp-meeting in the State of New York was held at 
Carmel in 1804. The memorable one at Stillwater, not many miles 
from Round Lake, in June, 1805, was the first held within the present 
bounds of the Troy Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
It continued four days. The services were conducted by Methodist 
ministers from Canada, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New 
York, and New Jersey. The presence and preaching of Bishops 
Asbury and Whatcoat attracted to it great numbers of people, many 
of whom were converted and became members of the growing 
church. 

In the subsequent period of three and sixty years camp-meetings 
were annually held at one or more places within the present limits 
of the Troy Conference. Shortly after the one at Sandlake, in 
August, 1867, the first steps were taken which led to the purchase 
of land at Round Lake for the site of a camp-meeting. 

Selfxtion of the Round Lake Grounds. 

The attractive features and noticeable conveniences of the camp- 
meeting grounds at Martha's Vineyard induced Joseph Hillman, of 
Troy, in the summer of 1867, to interest a number of other promi- 
nent Methodist laymen in forming an association to purchase an 
eligible site for a camp-meeting and to provide suitable accommoda- 
tions for the people attending it. A location along the Troy and 
Boston Railroad was first searched for, but in consequence of the 
unwillingness of the officers of the company controlling it to accede 
to certain proposals made them, the line of the Rensselaer and Sara- 
toga Railroad was then explored for one. Of the places visited 
none seemed so desirable as a partly-wooded extent of ground 



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between the railroad and Round Lake, seven miles north of Mechanic-: 
ville.i 

On September 4th, 1867, the undertaking was further advanced 
by Joseph Hillman, who that day sent invitations to many Methodist 
ministers and laymen residing within the limits of the Troy Confer- 
ence requesting them to attend a meeting to be held on the selected 
grounds at Round Lake, on Friday, September 20th, and informing 
them that the morning and afternoon trains from the north and 
south would stop there then. 

The weather was fair on the designated day and a large number 
of the invited persons was present. Although the aisles of the 
spacious wood through which they observantly walked were here 
and there thicket-grown, stone-encumbered, and even marshy in 
places, the visitors nevertheless admiringly surveyed the symmetrical 
beauty of the lofty trees, enjoyably inhaled the balsamic fragrance 
of the evergreens, and appreciatively remarked the natural com- 
pactness of the gravelly soil. The advantages of the lake for boat- 
ing and fishing, the practicability of obtaining an adequate supply 
of excellent water for drinking and other purposes, and the situation 
of the grounds at the side of the railroad and at the convergence of 
several highways further influenced the visitors to decide that the 
site was in every way suitable for camp-meetings.* 

^ The pioneers of the enterprise who first viewed the grounds at Round Lake 
were Joseph Hillman, Gardner Howland, the Rev. C. F. Burdick, and the Rev. 
Ensign Stover. 

* The following persons visited the grounds that day: From Troy, Rev. Erastus 
Wentworth, Rev. John W. Carhart, Rev. Ensign Stover, Rev. M. Hulbard, Joseph 
Hillman, Perrin W. Converse, Oliver Boutwell, Lyman R. Avery, Ephraim D. 
Waldron, Leonard Smith, W. L. Van Alstyne, C. Bachelor, N. S. Vedder, Lyman 
Bennett, William Harris, Gardner Howland, George Bristol, P. S. Pettit, Joseph 
Crandall. S. J. Peabody, S. L. Wood. 

From West Troy, J. D. Lobdell, E. Mors, J. A. Newkirk, C. G. Hill, David 
Rankin, W. H. Haswell. William Tucker. 

From Lansingburgh, Rev. W. R. Brown. 

From Waterford, Rev. H. C. Farrar, Levi Dodge, C. E. Howland. 

From Cohoes, Rev. H. C. Sexton, Jacob Travis, William Foote. 

From Albany, Rev. Jiesse T. Peck, D.D., Rev. Dexter E. Clapp, Rev. W. P. 
Abbott, Rev. Richard Meredith, Rev. L C. Fenton, Rev. G. C. Wells, Rev. R. H, 
Robinson, Rev. A. A. Farr, Rev. Charles Devol, M.D., William W. Wollett, 
William Dalton, D. D. C. Mink, John W. Osborn, S. A. Stratton, B. Nichols, 
George Downing, Edward Robinson, Lemuel J. Hopkins. 



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The Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association Incorporated. 

Joseph Hillman, the projector of the enterprise, on May 5th, 1868, 
obtained the passage of the act by the Legislature of the State of 
New York, constituting him and his associates the first trustees of 
the Round Lake Camp-meeting Association of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church of the Troy Conference.^ The corporation was per- 
mitted to possess real estate not exceeding ^150,000 in value and to 
derive an annual income from its personal property not exceeding 
$30,000. 

The first meeting of the trustees was held at the office of Peck & 
Hillman, in Troy, on May 4th, 1868. Joseph Hillman was elected 
President of the Association, Charles W. Pierce, Vice-President, 
Edgar O. Howland, Secretary, and George Bristol, Treasurer. 

On April ist, 1868, about forty acres of land, lying on the west 
side of Round Lake, were purchased for the association from Rice 
Hall and John Moore. 

On July 24th, that year, subscriptions to the funds of the associa- 
tion began to be solicited. The work of clearing away the under- 
growth in the unfrequented wood was then begun. The removal of 
the stone fence, running through it from the railroad, and of numerous 
bowlders roughening the uneven ground was also undertaken. 

From a spring on the west side of the railroad water was conveyed 
by wooden pipes to a pretty fountain in the centre of the space called 
Fountain Square. Not far eastward of it a covered platform was 

From Saratoga Springs, Rev. Samuel Meredith, Prof. H. A. Wilson, S. E. 
Strong. M.D., S S. Strong, M.D., R. Hamilton, M.D. 

From Fort Edward, F. D. Hodgeman. 

From Ballston Spa, Rev. O. J. Squires, Levi Weed, M.D., Squire Warren. 

From Mechanicville, Rev. P. P. Harrower, S. B. Howland, E. O. Howland. 

From Stillwater, Rev. S. Brown, Rev. R. Westcott, S. Chase. 

From Crescent, Rev. B. ISI. Hall. 

From Clifton Park Village, Rev. A. W. Garvin. 

From Greenbush, Rev. T. A. Griffin. 

From Center Brunswick, N. B. Betts, Henry Brust. 

From Hyndsville, Rev. A. J. Day. 

From W'illiamstown, Mass., S. Southworth. 

^ The first trustees as named in the act were Joseph Hillman, Gardner Howland, 
George Bristol, Ephraim D. Waldron, Phineas S. Pettit, Hiram A. Wilson, Roscius 
R. Kennedy, Edgar O. Howland, William Foote, Levi Weed, Robert N. Newton, 
Charles W. Pierce, Robert Coburn, James H. Earl, William Dalton, F. D. Hodge- 
man, Joseph E. King, D.D., Hazen W. Bennett, William McEckron, Jesse Wilson, 
and George L. Clark. 



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built to be used for a preaching-stand and for sittings for the minis- 
ters attending the meetings. In front of it rows of boards, resting 
on fixed pieces of timber, were arranged to seat the people congre- 
gated there during the services. Meanwhile a two-story frame 
building was erected on the east side of the railroad for a freight and 
passenger station. These and other improvements preceded the 
camp-meeting held on the grounds in September. 

The First Camp-Meeting at Round Lake. 

The first camp-meeting at Round Lake, that of the Troy Con- 
ference, was not inaugurated with any special services. On the 
opening day, Tuesday, September ist, 1868, the railroad trains 
brought in the morning and afternoon great numbers of persons who 
came to remain during the ten days' meeting. Those from the sur- 
rounding country arrived in carriages and wagons, bringing with 
them such movables as were indispensable to dwellers in temporary 
habitations. While some were busily engaged in pitching and fur- 
nishing tents around the space occupied by the platform and rows of 
seats, others pleasurably strolled through the woods enjoying the 
freedom of their out-door life. After night-fall a number gathered 
in front of the preaching-stand, and took part in a prayer-meeting 
conducted by the Rev. Ensign Stover, of Troy. Two hours later 
the camp of two hundred and more tents was as silent as the dark 
woods in which it was embosomed. 

The cities of Albany and Troy and the villages northward within 
the bounds of the Troy Conference all contributed parts of their 
population to augment the large concourse of people present at the 
services on the second day. In the morning, at half-past ten o'clock, 
the Rev. Elisha Watson, Presiding Elder of the Saratoga District of 
the Troy Conference, having the direction of the exercises, announced 
from the preachers' stand the regulations of the camp and the order 
of the daily services. Those of that day were begun by the Rev. C. 
F. Burdick, Presiding Elder of the Troy District, who announced and 
read the hymn: 

" Jesus shall reign where'er the sun 
Does his successive journeys run," 

which was sung by the great congregation of more than two thou- 
sand persons with that quickened fervor of religious feeling which 
often animates large bodies of worshipping people. The Rev. J. D. 
White, of Gansevoort, then offered a prayer, which was followed by 



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the reading of the xix. Psalm by the Rev. Ensign Stover. Then 

the hymn: 

" Jesus, the name high over all," 

read by the Rev. F. A. Soule, of Union Village, was sung. The 
Rev. Elisha Watson, in behalf of the members of the Round Lake 
Camp-Meeting Association, then presented the grounds for dedication 
to the service of God to the Rev, Jesse T. Peck, D.D., of Albany. 
The subject of his dedicatory discourse was God's revelation of 
Himself to man as declared by the text. Exodus xx., 24: "In every 
place where I record my name I will come unto thee, and 1 will bless 
thee." The memorable sermon of the eloquent preacher was fol- 
lowed by the dedicatory prayer of the Rev. R. H. Robinson, of Ball- 
ston Spa. The singing of the doxology, 

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, 

and the giving of the benediction by the Rev. O. J. Squires, of 
Ballston Spa, closed the impressive services of the morning. 

In the afternoon the Rev. John P, Newman, D.D., of New Orleans, 
preached. He took for his text the interrogation, *' Saul, Saul, why 
persecutest thou me ? " In the evening, the Rev. W. P. Abbott, of 
Albany, discoursed on Isaiah xxi. 11, 12. Prayer meetings were 
held afterwards in large tents in different parts of the camp. 

The presence of more than fifty ministers, some of other denomi- 
nations, and the attendance of two to three thousand other persons 
at these first services were gratifying evidences of the success of the 
association's undertaking. 

Public interest in the meetings increased. On Sunday, September 
6th, about eight thousand people were on the grounds. On Wednes- 
day evening, September 9th, the sermon of the Rev. Sela W. Brown, 
of Castleton, on the parable of the wheat and tares, was the last of 
the thirty discourses delivered during the meeting.^ The earnest, 

^ The following ministers preached: Revs. Jesse T. Peck, D.D., Albany; John 
P. Newman, D. D., New Orleans; W. P. Abbott, Albany; R. H. Robinson, Ball- 
ston Spa; D. P. Hulburd, Jonesville; F.Widmer, Schenectady; Charles Devol, M.D., 

Albany; Ruopp, ; L. N. Beaudry, Center Brunswick; G. C. Wells, 

Albany; G. J. Brown, North Adams, Mass.; Ensign Stover, Troy; Carson Parker, 
Bennington, Vt. ; John W. Carhart, Mechanicville; James M. King, Troy; Uavid 
B. McKenzie, Rock City; J. A. Wood, Wyoming Conference; Erastus Wentworth, 
D.D., Pittsfield; Simon McChesney, Saratoga Springs; Merritt Hulburd, Troy; 

J. B. Wood, Clarksville; R. W. Jones, ; T. S. McMasters, Peru; 

Foote, ; J. S. Inskip, New York; Ensign Stover, Troy; Benjamin Pome- 

roy, Waterford; J. C. Wells, Albany; Sela W. Brown, Castleton. 



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practical, effectual preaching of the Gospel led many hearers to 
acknowledge and accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour. 

One number of the Round Lake Journal, edited by the Rev. A. C. 
Rose, of North Granville, containing telegraphic, general, and local 
news and advertisements, was issued on Thursday, September 3d. 




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A committee from the National Camp-Meeting Association of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church having visited the grounds during the 
meeting, and made overtures for the use of them in July, 1869, the 
Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association accepted the proposals 
made for the privilege. 

The first constitution and by-laws governing the association were 
adopted September 9th. 

On October 20th, that year, the Executive Committee solicited sub- 
scriptions by a printed circular, stating that about $17,000 had been 
expended for land, fences, buildings, tents, water-works and grading, 
and that it was proposed to make other improvements requiring an 
outlay of $3,000. Mention was also made that the subscriptions 
then amounted to nearly $10,000, and that the receipts during the 
camp-meeting had been $3,365.02, and the expenses $2,020.09. 



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From the First National to the First Fraternal Camp- 
Meeting, 1869-1874. 

Many of the improvements made by the association in 1869 are 
represented on a plan of the grounds drawn by H. Drube, a civil 
engineer, who had surveyed and partly laid them out into building 
lots and avenues. More than a thousand young trees were planted 
along the avenues outside the wood and at other points where their 
shade and growth were thought desirable. Thirteen cottages, mostly 
two stories high, and eight or ten other buildings were erected.^ 

A bell weighing two hundred pounds was purchased and hung in 
the tower of the preachers' stand. A bookstore and newsroom, a 
market and grocery, a post and telegraph office were also eligibly 
located. For the care, feeding and watering of horses, and for the 
disposition of vehicles, the arrangements were judicious and ample. 
Sittings for three thousand people were placed in the auditorium. 
About four hundred tents, varying in size from the spacious, rainy- 
weather tent, sufficient for sheltering an audience of more than two 
thousand persons, to the diminutive sleeping tent, 7x7 feet, were 
provided. 

On Tuesday afternoon, July 6th, the introductory sermon of the 
first meeting of the National Camp-Meeting Association at Round 
Lake was preached by the Rev. John S. Inskip, of Baltimore, Md., 
the president of that association. The Rev. M. B. Osborn, of Farm- 
ingdale, N. J., delivered the evening discourse. 

These and most of the other sermons preached during the meeting 
were on the subject of holiness, a theme embracing a wide view of 
the sinfulness of man and of the gracious power of God to elevate 
him to that higher life opened unto him by Jesus Christ. 

The services of Sunday, July nth, were largely attended, from 
fifteen to twenty thousand people being present. More than a thou- 
sand vehicles and a greater number of horses occupied places 
assigned them outside the thronged wood. At the morning love 
feast, at 8 o'clock, testimonies were given by persons living in 

1 The nine cottages on Wesley Avenue were erected by Joseph Hillman, Troy; 
Jacob Travis, Cohoes; R. N. Newton and S. Martin, Albany; Pemble & Wood, 
Stillwater; Rev. R. H. Robinson, Ballston Spa; Holmes & McEchron, Glens' 
Falls; James P. Burtis, Mechanicville; F. D. Hodgeman, Fort Edward; E. Lock- 
wood, Mechanicville. The three on Fletcher Avenue, by Steves & Brown, Troy; 
Cicero Barber, Fort Edward; Sandford Smith, Ballston Spa. The one on Seventh 
Street, by A. P. Blood, Ballston Spa. 



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twenty-six states and in the District of Columbia in the United 
States, and by others living in Canada and in England. At the io| 
o'clock services the Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson, of Philadelphia, 
impressively preached to a vast assembly of attentive people. In 
the afternoon, at 2^ o'clock, five discourses were delivered — one at 
the preachers' stand, another in the large tent, and a third in Fountain 
Square, a fourth at the passenger station, and a fifth at the horse- 
stand. 

The presence of more than two hundred and fifty ministers of 
different denominations at one of the daily services caused not a 
little comment. Children's meetings were held daily in the large 
tent. The noted exhorter, " Camp-Meeting John of Maine," fre- 
quently took part in the prayer meetings. 

On Thursday morning, July 15th, about eighteen hundred persons 
partook of the elements of the Tord's table in the large tent. On 
Friday morning following, short addresses, hymns, and prayers ter- 
minated this highly successful camp-meeting.^ 

Among the improvements made by the association in July and 
August, 1869, was the extension northward of Prospect Avenue, and 
the erection of twelve attractive cottages, s 

The second camp-meeting of the Troy Conference held on the 
grounds was one of ten days, beginning on Tuesday, August 31st, 
conducted by the Rev. C. F. Burdick, Presiding Elder of the Troy 
District. The first sermon was preached by the Rev. Jesse T. Peck, 
D.D., of Albany, on Tuesday afternoon, from the text, Hebrews ii.> 
3: " How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ? " 

1 The discourses were those of the Revs. John S. Inskip, Baltimore. Md. ; W. B. 
Osborn, Farmingdale, N. J.; W. L. Gray, Philadelphia; W. McDonald, Boston; 
G. Pratt, Rockland. Me.; Jesse T. Peck, D.D., Albany; Alfred Cookman, Wil- 
mington, Del.; C. Munger, Bath, Me.; J. W. Home, New York City; William 
Butler, Boston, Sec. American and Foreign Christian Union; \V. Reddy, Utica; 
Rev. Bishop M. Simpson, Philadelphia; Andrew Longacre, New York City; G. 

Hughes, Hightstown, N. J.; Chapman, Philadelphia; G. C. Wells, Albany; 

S. Coleman, Williamsport, Pa.; Lewis R. Dunn, Jersey City; W. H. Boole, Will- 
iamsburgh, N. Y. ; John Cookman, New York City; Lawrence, N. J. 

^ One on Ninth Street, erected by the Rev. E. Stover, Troy; two on Fletcher Ave- 
nue, by Dr. S. S. Strong and Prof. H. A. Wilson, Saratoga Springs, and E. A. 
Hartshorn, Troy; one on Tenth Street, by Charles Smith, M.D., Albany; one on. 
Albany Street, by Rev. F. A. Soule, Sandy Hill; seven on Wesley avenue, by H. 
J. Porter, M.D., Bennington, Vt. ; L. M. Smith, Half Moon; S. F. Harris, Ben- 
nington, Vt. ; Miss Margaret C. Clement, Half Moon; Henry Howarth, Cohoes; 
James Heimstreet, Cohoes; Walter Witbeck, Cohoes. 



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The number of people occupying tents was large. The daily ser- 
vices were well-attended and the preaching was forcible and 
effective.^ The meetings to promote entire consecration to God 
were in charge of Mrs. Sarah Lankford, of Brooklyn. 

The general attractiveness of the grounds in the month of June, 
1870, was much admired by the people attending the third Troy 
Conference camp- meeting at Round Lake. The fresh and perfect 
foliage of the trees, the bright verdure of the lawns, and the inviting 
appearance of the embowered cottages elicited the comment of all. 
The latest improvements included the Bishop's cottage, erected on 
the east side of Wesley Avenue.^ Tuesday, June 21st, had been 
announced for the beginning of the camp-meeting, conducted by 
the Rev. Samuel Meredith, Presiding Elder of the Albany District, 
but the accidental detention on the railroad cars of the minister 
designated to preach that evening caused the first services to be 
postponed to Wednesday morning. The introductory sermon was. 
by the Rev. Ensign Stover, of West Troy. 

The holding of the meeting in June was evidently unwise, for at 
that time farmers were most actively engaged in agriculture, and 
therefore debarred from attending the services. The absence of the 
country people was noticeable in the comparatively small number of 
persons daily congregated on the grounds. On Sunday, June 26th, 
about two thousand people were present at the morning and after- 
noon services. On the following Tuesday morning the Rev. Bishop 
E. S. Janes, of New York City, preached an excellent sermon. The 
camp-meeting closed on Friday morning, July ist, with a love feast.*' 

^ Sermons were preached by the Revs. Jesse T. Peck, Albany; R. H. Robinson,. 
Ballston Spa; D. W. Gates, Cambridge; A. Ford, Stillwater; E. Stover, Troy; 
Homer Eaton, West Troy, J. R. Henderson. Lima, Ohio; E. A. Blanchard, Clifton 
Park Village; R. Meredith, North Adams, Mass.; G. S. Chadbourne, Gloversville; 

S. W. Brown, Waterford; Steves; H. C. Sexton, Saratoga Springs: J. M. 

Webster, Greenfield; Erastus Wentworth, Pittsfield; W. G. Waters, Albany; Louis 
N. Beaudry, Albany; S. Meredith, Albany, Presiding Elder of Albany District; G. 
C. Wells, Albany; Merritt Hulburd, Troy. 

* Three other cottages had been erected on Wesley Avenue severally belonging 
to the Rev. William Griffin, D. D., of West Troy; Gardner Howland,- of Troy; and 
the Rev. B. D. Ames, of Mechanicville. 

* The sermons preached during the meeting were by the Revs. Ensign Stover, 
West Troy; R. H. Robinson, Ballston Spa; J. R. Wager, Green Island; M. D. 
Jessup, West Amsterdam; F. A. Soule, Sandy Hill; J. Belknap, Pittstown; Homer 
Eaton, West Troy; J. W. Tucker, Troy; Je^se T. Peck, D.D., Syracuse; Merritt 



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The fourth Troy Conference camp-meeting at Round Lake, con- 
ducted by the Rev. Elisha Watson, Presiding Elder of the Saratoga 
District, began on Monday, September 5th, 1870. About four hun- 
dred persons attended the evening services, at which the Rev. Abel 
Ford, of Stillwater, preached the initial sermon of the meeting. The 
services of the week were variably attended, several hundred to two 
thousand persons being present from day to day. The meeting 
inmf orally closed on Saturday, September loth, the weather being 
stormy.^ 

The sixth camp-meeting held at Round Lake was that of the 
National Camp-Meeting Association in 187 1, conducted by its presi- 
dent, the Rev. John S. Inskip, of Baltimore. About three hundred 
and fifty tents were pitched around the audience center, and they and 
the thirty and more cottages accommodated the sojourners from ten 
different states, numbering from one to two thousand persons and rep- 
resenting many of the different Christian denominations in the 
United States. The object of the meeting was the promotion of 
holiness. At one of the daily services three ministers, one a Meth- 
odist, one a Congregationalist and the third a Baptist, all doctors of 
divinity, officiated. 

On Tuesday afternoon, July 4th, the Rev. John S. Inskip preached 
the first sermon. In the evening, on account of the rain, there was 
no sermon. Services of prayer, praise, and exhortation were held in 
the large tent. 

At the eight o'clock love feast on Sunday morning, three hundred 
and seventy-seven persons spoke of their Christian experience within 
an hour and forty- five minutes. About ten thousand people attended 
the morning and afternoon services that day. Not less than two 

Hulburd, Albany; L. Marshall, Cohoes; D. P. Hulburd, Jonesville; Joseph E. 
King, D.D., Fort Edward; B. B. Loonus, Mechanicville; B. M. Hall, Rutland, 
Vt. ; R. Meredith, Brooklyn; J. E. Irvine, Dingman's Ferry, N. J.; Bishop E. S. 
Janes, New York City; D. B. McKenzie, Bethlehem; D. Hawley, D. D., Glens' 
Falls; S. McChesney, Albany; H. W. Slocum, Brunswick; Louis N. Beaudry, 
Albany; C W. Brown, Troy; G. H. Townsend, Pittsford, Vt. 

1 The following ministers preached during the meeting: Revs. Abel Ford, Still- 
water; J. C. Fenton, Watervliet; R. Wheatley, Hudson; J. M. Webster, Rock 
City; Erastus Wentworth, D.D., Pittsfield, Mass.;C. K. True, Springfield, Mass.; 
D, B. McKenzie, Bethlehem; Samuel Meredith, Presiding Elder of the Albany 
District; Bishop Jesse T. Peck, Syracuse; D. T. Elliott, Sandlake; Benjamin 
Pomeroy, Albany; Simon McChesney, Albany; S. W. Brown, Waterford. 



22 ROUND LAKE. 

thousand persons were present at the Monday morning prayer- 
meeting, at five o'clock. 

The closing sacramental services on Thursday evening, July 13th, 
were attended by about three thousand persons. The singing of 

the hymn 

"All hail the power of Jesus' name," 

terminated this signally blessed camp meeting.^ 

The use of the grounds for residence during the months of sum- 
mer by those owning or renting the cottages was proposed in 1872. 
About forty had been erected.^ In order to ascertain the acceptable- 
ness of the privilege, the following announcement was made by the 
association in the spring of that year: " Believing that the use of 
the grounds for summer homes for Christian families cannot in any 
way interfere with, but rather promote the spirituality of the camp- 
meetings, the trustees have declared a ' Season,' commencing July 
ist, and continuing until October ist, during which time the morning 
and evening trains each way will stop for the accommodation of 
those who desire to remain upon the grounds, provided a sufficient 
number remains." 

^ The sermons were by the Revs. John S. Inskip, Baltimore, Md. ; William 
McDonald, Brooklyn; W. L. Gray, Philadelphia; A. McLean, New York; W. S. 
Harlow, Duxbury, Mass.; G. C. Wells, Milwaukee; W. H. Boole, New York; L. 
R. Dunn, EHzabeth, N. J.; J. W. Home, Babylon N. Y. ; Andrew Longacre, New 

York; W. H. Hughes, ; J. E. Searles, New York; Alfred Cookman, Newark ; 

C. Munger, Alford, Mass.; Seymour Coleman, ; Edgar M. Levy, D.D., 

Philadelphia; W. Reddy, D.D., Skeneateles; James Porter, Boston, Mass.; 

Lee, New York; C. D. Foss, New York. 

® The cottages were owned by the following persons : The Bishop's by the asso- 
ciation; Rev. William Griffin, D.D., West 'i'roy; Joseph Hillman, Troy; Gardner 
Howland, Troy; J. P. Burtis, Minnesota; J. A. S. Lord, Albany; D. C Holman, 
Glens' Falls; F. D. Hodgeman, Fort Edward; Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Fort 
Edward; George West, Ballston Spa; R. N. Newton and S. Martin, Albany; Rev. 
B. O. Ames, Mechanicville ; Jacob Travis, Cohoes; John Burhans, Galway; L. M. 
Smith, Clifton Park; Miss M. C. Clement, Clifton Park; H. Haworth, Cohoes; J. 
Heimstreet, Cohoes ; Henry Brust, Brunswick ; W. Witbeck, Cohoes : L. Wood, 
Stillwater ; L. N. Beaudry, Shelbourne Falls, Vt., and H. A. Wolf, Greenbush; 

Stockwell and Huling, Bennington; Mrs. Harriet Bradley, Schenectady; 

S. F. Harris, Bennington ; Dr. H. J. Petter, Bennington ; Dr. S. S. Strong and 
Prof. H. A. Wilson, Saratoga Springs; E. A. Hartshorn and Moses Hovey, Troy; 
A. C. Fellows, Troy; Cicero Barber, Fort Edward; Rev. J. W. Belknap, Peters- 
burgh; Sanford Smith, Fort Edward; A. P. Blood, Ballston Spa ; Jesse Wilson, 
Hampton; Haight and Mosher, Stillwater; Dr. C. H. Smith, Albany; Eleazer A. 
Peck, Troy; Mrs. E. Stover, Saratoga Springs ; Rev. A. Osborn, Hagaman's Mills 
Mrs. Almira Waterman, Brooklyn. 



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Few of the previous camp-meetings held at Round Lake were as 
remarkable in interesting incidents as the first New York State meet- 
ing in July, 1872. The discourses were thoughtful, earnest, and 
impressive, and the exhortations direct and urgent. Deep feeling 
and fervent longings for spiritual blessings notably characterized the 
prayer meetings. Amanda Smith, an intelligent negro woman, once 
a slave, being present for the first time at Round Lake attending 
the varied services of this meeting, enlisted the attention of many 
impenitent persons by her sympathetic singing and cogent reason- 
ing concerning the importance of living a Christian life. 

The opening sermon was preached on Tuesday evening, July i6th, 
by the Rev. B. L Ives, of Auburn, New York, who had charge of 
the meeting. On the following Sunday, about one thousand vehicles 
and more than ten thousand people entered the grounds. Including 
those at the preachers' stand, there were no less than thirty-three 
religious meetings held that day at different places in the enjoyable 
shade of the spacious wood. On Thursday night, at ten o'clock, 
most of the three thousand persons attending the evening services 
partook of the Lord's Supper. After the usual march around the 
" circle," the seventh camp-meeting held at Round Lake was closed 
at midnight with a benediction^ 

The new and attractive passenger station at Round Lake, built in 
the spring of 1873, by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, 
lessee of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, was one of the most 
conspicuous of the improvements made that year. It was constructed 
of corrugated, galvanized iron. The middle part, containing the 
ticket-office, waiting and baggage rooms, is twenty-four feet wide 
and forty long, and the open wings, north and south, are twenty by 
seventy feet. The uncomfortable plank seats in the audience-space 

^ The following ministers preached during the meeting: Revs. B. I. Ives, 
Auburn; L. N. Beaudry, Shelburne Falls, Vt. ; Charles F. Noble, Troy; G. S. 
White, Utica; S. D. Brown, New York; R. A. Caruthers, Presiding Elder of the 
Fredonia District, Erie Conference; W. N. Cobb, Presiding Elder of Otsego Dis- 
trict; Joseph E. King, D.D., Fort Edward; S. W. Brown, West Troy; S. Mere- 
dith, Troy; Seymour Coleman, ; B. Pomeroy, Troy; Butler, Secre- 
tary of Board for the Conversion of Roman Catholics; A. J. Kynett, D.D., Phila- 
delphia; D. D. Lindsley, Presiding Elder of the Oswego District of the Wyoming 

Conference; J. B. Wakeley, of Newburgh District; Teed, of Rock River 

Conference; H. Skeel, of Saquoit; J. B. Foote, Presiding Elder of Syracuse Dis- 
trict; J. C. Fenton, Bath; C. S. Clement, North Bennington, Vt. 



24 ROUND LAKE. 

were removed, and backed benches placed in front of the preachers' 
stand. The purchase of the Corps farm and of land lying on the north 
and east sides of the grounds increased their area to 120 acres, with 
a frontage of nearly a half mile on the lake. An avenue extending 
from the central part of the grounds to the lake was laid out and a 
boat-landing constructed at the termination of the new road. 

The second New York State camp-meeting, conducted by the 
Rev. B. I, Ives, of Auburn, was informally opened with a prayer 
meeting on Tuesday evening, July 8th, 1873. On Wednesday morn- 
ing the Rev. B, I. Ives preached the first sermon. The closing of 
the gates on the following Sunday limited the attendance at the 
services to those persons sojourning on the grounds. The large 
tent purchased by the association, in which to hold services in rainy 
weather, was dedicated on Saturday afternoon, July 12th. From 
three to four thousand people were present at the services on the 
following Tuesday. Twenty-two ministers preached during the 
meeting, among whom was Bishop Peck^ Sacramental services 
were held at nine o'clock on Thursday evening, July 17th, and after 
" the walk about Jerusalem," this eighth camp-meeting held at 
Round Lake was closed with a benediction. 

In the summer of 1873, the new highway, named Waugh Avenue, 
on the west side of the lake, was completed, and the old road running 
along the line of Janes Avenue closed. The former was accepted 
by the Commissioners of Highways of the town of Malta on Satur- 
day, August 30th. The superintendent's house, on the southeast 
corner of Lake and Hedding Avenues, was among the number of 
new buildings erected in the summer. 

The fifth camp-meeting of the Troy Conference held on the 
grounds began on Wednesday morning, September 3d, 1873, the 
Rev. Sanford Washburn, of Jonesville, conducting it. The morning's 
sermon was preached by the Rev. S. M, Williams, of Schuylerville. 
Twenty-two other discourses were delivered during the meeting by 

1 The ministers who preached were the Revs. B. I. Ives, Auburn; J. M. Web- 
ster, Presiding Elder of the Cambridge District; Alexander Campbell, of Troy Con- 
ference; Bishop Jesse T. Peck; J. F. Yates, Chenango; H. Wheeler, Presiding 
Elder of Otsego District; Bostwick Hawley, D.D., Bennington, Vt.; Merritt Hul- 
burd, Springfield, Mass. ; L. N. Beaudry, Shelburne, Vt. ; G. W. Knapp, Claver- 
ack; Joseph E. King, D.D., Fort Edward; William Adams, of Central New York 
Conference; A. A. Farr, Albany; S. W. Brown, West Troy; J. B. Hammond, 
Chateaugay; David H. MuUer, Rochester; S. W. Clemens, Greenbush; L. R. 
Thayer, Springfield, Mass.; S. Meredith, Troy; D. Austin, Frey's Bush; J. M. 
Edgerton, Sandy Hill; Shepard, . 



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different ministers. 1 On Sunday, September 7th, the gates were 
closed, and about two thousand persons were denied admittance to 
to the erounds. 




AI.UMNI HALL. 

The judiciousness of debarring the pubHc from the grounds on Sun- 
day had frequently been discussed. The gates at first were never 

1 Revs. I. C. Fenton, Greenbush; Peter M. Hitchcock, Cooksborough; W. J. 
Sands, Guilderland; M. D. Jump, Valatie; B. F. Livingston, Castleton; O. Gregg, 
Presiding Elder of the Burlington District; George C. Morehouse, Mechanicville; 
W. J. Tilley, Dalton; S. W. Edgerton, Dannemora; H. D. Kimball, Williams- 
town, Mass.; A. F. Bailey, Troy; Robert Patterson, Crescent; A. D. Head, 

; E. Marsh, Kinderhook; M. A. Senter, South Adams, Mass.; Thomas 

Kelley, Mooers; M. B. Mead, Lansingburgh; H. W. Slocum, Brunswick; S. W. 
Clemens, Greenbush; R. J. Adams, Johnsonville; William Bedell, Tomhannock; 
Seymour Coleman. 



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closed. No little ill-feeling was therefore engendered by the enforce- 
ment of the regulation denying entrance to the grounds on Sunday. 
After this meeting certain modifications changed the restrictions and 
the gates were opened. The meeting closed on Friday evening, 
July i2th. 

From the First Fraternal Camp-Meeting to the First 
Sunday School Assembly, 1874-1877. 

The most notable of all the meetings held at Round Lake was the 
Fraternal meeting in 1874. The leaven of its wonderful influence 
permeated the great body of the Methodist Church in the United 
States and widely quickened the growth of good will among the 
ministers and laity of its different branches. It noticeably brought 
into closer relations the interests of the two divisions of the church, 
North and South, that had so long been separated by political differ- 
ences respecting slavery and the bitter feeling caused by the Civil 
War. 

Fortunately, in the spring of 1874, the project of holding a fra- 
ternal camp-meeting at Round Lake, to which the bishops, minis- 
ters, and laymen of the different branches of the church should be 
invited, occurred to the liberal-minded and indefatigable president 
of the association, Joseph Hillman. He disclosed his conception of 
the benefits of the meeting to the Rev. Bishop Simpson in Philadel- 
phia, who, besides approving the project, advised him to consult 
with the Rev. Bishop Janes, residing in New York City, who had 
been elected to his bishoprick by the votes of the representatives 
from the southern states. Bishop Janes at once expressed his will- 
ingness to co-operate with the officers of the association in securing 
the desired attendance of those to be invited to the proposed meet- 
ing. He thereupon wrote the invitation, signed by the Presiding 
Elders of the Troy Conference, setting forth the high purpose of 
the meeting, and the letter of acceptance to which so many of the 
bishops willingly subscribed their names, and also the paper bearing 
the signatures of the large number of representative men of the 
church who signified their intention of being present. Taking with 
him the invitation of the Presiding Elders of the Troy Conference, 
the two other papers, and a letter of introduction written by the 
Rev. Bishop Janes, the earnest president of the Round Lake Camp- 
Meeting Association visited Louisville, Ky., where, in May, 1874, 
the General Conference of the Methodist Church South was in ses- 
sion. The incidents of the different interviews which he held with 



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the officers of the conference and other representatives of the church 
south and their interrogations, made his mission one of extreme 
deUcacy and prudent action. The success of his efforts, besides 
bemg agreeably disclosed in the published acceptances of the invi- 
tations given them, was later more gratifyingly expressed in the 
presence of the large body of bishops, eminent ministers, and promi- 
nent laymen of the Methodist Church South at the Fraternal meet- 
ing, the purpose of which, as Bishop Janes wrote, was " not to talk 
about fraternity, but to enjoy it; not to plan for it, but to prac- 
tice it." 

The accommodations for the comfort and entertainment of the 
people attending the meeting, which began on July 8th, and con- 
tinued fourteen days, were in every way sufficient and satisfactory. 
Eight or ten churches had tabernacles in which to lodge many of 
their members. The public boarding tents were enlarged to seat at 
the tables more than five hundred persons at one time. Wreaths of 
evergreen were festooned around the preachers' stand, and along the 
back part of it a long piece of canvas displayed the inscription, 
" Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell 
together in unity." Across some of the avenues scriptural texts were 
suspended. The most remarked of these was the one, " I will say 
to the North, Give up; and to the South, Keep not back." 

Representatives of ten branches of the Methodist Church in North 
America were present at this memorable meeting. Bishops Janes, 
Simpson, Foster, Haven, and Peck of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; Bishops Kavanaugh and Doggett, of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church South; Bishop Campbell, of the African Methodist Episcopal 
Church; and Bishops Jones and Clinton, of the African Methodist 
Episcopal Zion Church, all took prominent parts in the varied and 
impressive services. During the fourteen days of the meeting (some 
of them rainy) more than fifty sermons were preached by ministers 
from different parts of the United States and Canada, i 

1 The sermons were by Bishop E. S. Janes, D.D., LL.D., New York City; 
Thomas B. Sargent, Baltimore, Md. ; Anson Green, D.D., Toronto, Canada; 
Bishop J. P. Campbell, Philadelphia, Pa.; Joseph Cummings, D.D., LL.D., Mid- 

dletown, Conn.; T. M. Eddy, D.D., New York City; Plummer, D.D., 

. Tenn. ; Joseph Dare, Melbourne, Australia; John S. Inskip, ; Bishop 

M. Simpson, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.; S. V. Leech, Baltimore, Md.; S. Call, 

, N. Y. ; "William Reddy, D.D., Syracuse, ; Isaac McCann, , 

; F. Bottome, D.D., New York City; L. H. King, D.D., New York City; 

W. C. Henderson, Stratford, Canada; T. H. Pearne, D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio; A. 
L. Cooper, D.D., St. Albans, Vt.; F. Widmer, Carthage, N. Y.; J. M. Walden, 



28 ROUND LAKE. 

On Wednesday evening, July 8th, the Rev. Bishop Janes, D.D., 
LL.D., who had charge of the meeting, preached the first sermon, 
the subject being, " The adaptedness of Christianity to man's spiritual 
necessities," and the text, i. Cor., i., 30. 

The hymns, '' Christian Greeting," by Mrs. Joseph Hillman, " The 
Day of Days," by the Rev. F. Bottome, D.D.; "Devotion," by 
Eleazer A. Peck, and " Christian Unity," by the Rev. A. C. Rose, 
written for the occasion, were sung at the Thursday morning services. 

On the following Sunday it rained. Seventeen sermons were 
preached that day at different places on the grounds. 

By invitation, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of 
America, visited Round Lake on Wednesday, July 15th. He arrived 
on the morning train from Saratoga Springs, between nine and ten 
o'clock, and was taken to the Bishop's cottage. Shortly afterward he 
was escorted to the preachers' stand, where he was introduced to the 
people congregated there by the Rev. Bishop Janes, and was received 
with prolonged hand-clapping. Seated on the stand, the President 
heard the sermon preached by the Rev. George Douglass, D.D., of 
Montreal, Canada, on the Power and Assurance of the Gospel. 
After dining at one of the boarding tents and holding a short recep- 
tion in front of the preachers' stand, the President departed on a 
special train for Saratoga Springs. 

The services were well attended. Often the number of ministers 
present exceeded a hundred and of the laity five thousand. 

On Wednesday morning, July 22d, this first Fraternal camp-meet- 
ing at Round Lake terminated with a love feast. 

The good-will which this meeting established between the two 
great bodies of the Methodist Church North and South led to the 

D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio; C. C. McCabe, D.D., Chicago, 111.; J. B. Foote, Syra- 
cuse, N. Y.; J. T. Walker, D.D., ; William McDonald, ; J. L. Gil- 
der, New York City; Sela W. Brown, Galesburgh, 111.; Lewis R. Dunn, Paterson, 
N. J.; J. Gardner, D.D., Hamilton, Canada; John B. McFerrin, D.D., Nashville, 
Tenn.; John J. Murray, D.D., Pittsburgh, Pa.; D. D. Lore, D.D., Syracuse, N. Y.; 
Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh, D.D., Louisville, Ky. ; John Potts, D.D., Toronto, 
Canada; George Douglass, D.D., Montreal, Canada; L. W. Bates, D.D., Balti- 
more, Md.; John Poisal, D.D., Baltimore, Md.; A. J. Kynett, D.D., Philadelphia, 
Pa.; L. D. White, Potsdam, N. Y.; E. O. Haven, D.D., LL.D., Syracuse, N. Y.; 
Charles F. Deems, D.D., New York City; Bishop Jesse T. Peck, D.D., San Fran- 
cisco, Cal.; William Hunter, D.D., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bishop R. S. Foster, D.D., 
LL.D., Cincinnati, Ohio; Leroy M. Lee, D.D., Richmond, Va. ; Bishop D. S. 
Doggett, D.D., Richmond, Va. ; Cyrus D. Foss, D.D., New York City; Bishop 
Gilbert Haven, D.D., Atlanta, Ga. ; B. I. Ives, Auburn, N. Y. ; Alexander Clark, 
D.D., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bishop S. T. Jones, Washington, D. C. 



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appointment of a commission by their respective conferences to 
harmonize their interests. The commissioners met at Cape May, 
N. J., and amicably determined the adjustment of the long-existing 
differences. Bishop Pierce in a letter to the General Conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, wrote with marked emphasis 
that the Fraternal meeting at Round Lake was the chief factor in 
settling them. 

At the close of the first Fraternal camp-meeting in July, 1874, 
the Presiding Elders of the Troy Conference and the Trustees of 
the Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association were requested by the 
bishops and many of the ministers and laymen attending the ser- 
vices to appoint a similar meeting to be held in July, 1875. The 
desire of the signers of the request was at once complied with and 
a general invitation extended to " the great family of Methodists " 
in North America to a second fraternal gathering on the grounds at 
the designated time. 

One of the incidents of the summer was the launching of a small 
steamboat, to which the name " Ordelia," the name of the wife of the 
president of the association, Mrs. Joseph Hillman, was given. The 
vessel was forty-five feet long and carried forty passengers. A yacht 
and about fifteen row-boats were also owned by the association. A 
new boat-house was erected on the north side of the landing at the 
foot of Covel Avenue. 

The area of the grounds was greatly enlarged by the purchase of 
sixty-five acres of land on the west side of the railroad, and subse- 
quently of fifteen acres on the north side of the property, east of the 
railroad, the entire area of the grounds being about two hundred 
acres. Avenues and building lots were laid out on a part of the 
later purchased property, and a new map of the grounds was printed 
in the Round Lake Jounial issued in June, 1875. 

The presence of nine bishops and the frequent attendance of 
thousands of people made the second Fraternal camp-meeting nearly 
equal to the first one in distinction. The first of the series of excel- 
lent sermons was preached on Thursday evening, July ist, 1875, by 
the Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., of Fort Edward. The meeting 
was conducted by the Rev. Bishop E. S. Janes, D.D., of New York 
City. During its continuance about thirty-five discourses were 
delivered by ministers representing different branches of the Meth- 
odist Church in the United States and Canada. 

^ The following ministers preached: Revs. Joseph E. King, Fort Edward; S. V. 
Leech, Baltimore, Md. ; L. N. Beaudrj-, Green Island; Hiram Dunn, Schroon 



3° ROUND LAKE. 

Assured by eminent geologists that mineral water similar to that 
of the springs at Saratoga could be obtained by boring through the 
strata of the Hudson River shale, the Round Lake Camp-Meeting 
Association employed Conde & Denton to drill a well near the south- 
west corner of Burlington and George avenues. On Saturday 
noon, July loth, a number of people assembled there to witness the 
beginning of the undertaking. The following poetical composition 
was written and read by the Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., of Fort 
Edward, entitled: 

Smiting the Rock. 

'Tis a fair scene to-day that greets our sight, 

Thanks be to God, who gives the precious light. 

That glorious grove beneath whose grateful shade 

The fair white tents of Israel are made, 

Where hungry multitudes are daily fed 

With manna from the bending heavens shed, 

Whose grand, green arches ring with sacred song, 

Till all the conscious leaves the strains prolong. 

Yon peaceful lake, that mirrors back the sky, 

Like Christian hearts, when Jesus passeth by, — 

Where on the earth can lovelier spot be found ? 

With grateful joy we call it holy ground. 

Be sure of this, the skeptic jeers despite, 

The smiling earth is not a hypocrite. 

If on the surface Nature is so fair, 

Beneath that surface must be treasures rare. 

Stir with a vigorous hoe her generous soil, 

And laughing harvests will reward your toil. 

Deep in her entrails he doth find that bores 

For light and fuel, more than kingly stores. 

At Saratoga, by many a gushing spout, 

In floods she pours her healing waters out. 

We, too, for healing waters are in quest, 

And come to Mother Nature's bounteous breast 

To pierce, mayhap, some deep, all-healing rill. 

And in this hope and faith, we start " the drill," 

Be this to us instead of Moses' rod. 

And when the waters flow the praise shall be to God. 

Lake; C. F. Burdick, Presiding Elder of Albany District; Bishop W. L. Harris, D.D., 

Chicago, 111.; Register, Baltimore, Md. ; Bishop E. G. Andrews, D.D., 

Des Moines, la.; A. S. Hunt. D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.; W. H. Hunter, D.D., 

; Spear, D.D., , Ky. ; Bishop Miles, ; 

Bishop J. P. Campbell, African M. E. Church, Philadelphia, Pa. ; J. F. Clymer, 
Glens' Falls; Bishop Halsey (African), , Ga. ; P. A. Moelling, D.D., 
Troy, N. Y. ; J. T. Murray, D.D., Newark, N. J.; Wiley, D.D., 



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31 



After some happy remarks respecting the enterprise of the asso- 
ciation had been made by the Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., of Wash- 
ington, D. C, the drilUng machinery was set in operation. 

Amanda Smith, of Philadelphia, was on the grounds during the 
meeting, and heartily engaged in the religious exercises in the 
prayer-meeting tents. Mrs. Sarah Lankford, of Brooklyn, was also 
a zealous co-worker. 

About two thousand persons, bishops, ministers and laymen, 
marched in procession, singing farewell hymns at the close of the 
meeting on Wednesday morning, July 14th. 




COTTAGE OF REV. WILLIAM GRIFFIN, D.D. 

The display of flags at the preachers' stand and on most of the 
cottages at the opening of the third Fraternal camp-meeting on Fri- 



; T. H. Pearne, D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio; Bisliop R. S. Foster, D.D., Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio; John P. Newman, D. D., Washington, D. C. ; J. O. Clarke, D.D., 
Savannah, Ga. ; Cyrus D. Foss, D.D., New York City; Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh, 
D.D., Louisville, Ky. ; A. R. Sanford, D.D., Prattsville, N. Y.; Bishop I. W. 
Wiley, D.D., Boston, Mass.. J. B. McFerrin, D.D., Nashville, Tenn.; J. Hunt, 
, Canada; John Shaw, D. D., , Canada; Bishop S. T. Jones, 

African M. E. Church, Philadelphia; Bishop Thomas Bowman, D.D., St. Louis, 
Mo.; E. J. Drinkhouse, D.D., Baltimore; F. Bottome, D.D., New York City; A. 
J. Kynett, D.D., Philadelphia. 



32 ROUND LAKE, 

day morning, June 23d, 1876, signalized the centennial year of the 
signing of the Declaration of Independence. The services of this 
meeting were under the direction of the Rev. Bishop E. S. Janes, 
The Rev. D. T, Elliott, of Charlton, N, Y., delivered the first of the 
twenty-eight discourses heard by the large congregations present at 
the services. Bishops Janes, Peck, Simpson, Foster, and Wayman, 
and other eminent ministers of the church from different parts of the 
country, officiated in them.^ Many of the persons attending the 
meeting enjoyed the daily excursions around the lake in the " Ordelia " 
and the barge " Centennial," towed by her. The services closed on 
Monday, July 4th, with an experience meeting. 

In the summer, a canvas canopy to shelter the congregated people 
in rainy weather was purchased by the association and extended 
over framework above the seats in the auditorium-space, A bell of 
six hundred pounds weight was placed in the tower on the preachers' 
stand. 

The sixth Conference camp-meeting began on Tuesday evening, 
September 5th, 1876, with a service of praise and prayer, and remarks 
by some of the ministers present. On Wednesday morning, the Rev, 
Homer Eaton, Presiding Elder of the Albany District, who had 
charge of the meeting, preached the initial sermon. The daily after- 
noon services were assigned to Mrs, Maggie Van Cott, of New York 
City, the distinguished evangelist, whose earnest and impressive 
preaching attracted to the grounds not infrequently from four to five 
thousand people. On Sunday, September loth, four hundred and 
eighty-seven teams entered the gates, which had been closed on 
Sundays for several years. Besides the discourses of Mrs. Van Cott, 

^ Sermons were preached by Revs. D. T. Elliott, Charlton, N. Y.; E. C. Curtiss, 
D.D.. Syracuse, N. Y.; J. H. Coleman, Galway, N. Y.; H. D. Kimball, Troy, N. 
Y.; William Bedell, Troy, N. Y.; G. C. Morehouse, Poultney, Vt.; Bishop E. S. 
Janes, D.D., New York City; J. B. McFerrin, D.D., Nashville, Tenn. ; G. C. Ban- 
croft, Troy, N. Y.; S. V, Leech, D. D. , Baltimore, Md.; S. Coleman, Williamsport, 
Pa.; Bishop Jesse T, Peck, D.D., San Francisco, Cal.; A. K. Sanford, D.D., Pratts- 
ville, N. Y. ; D. B. McKenzie, Hampton; Bishop A. W. Wayman, D.D., African 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Md. ; T. A. Griffin, Presiding Elder of the 
Plattsburgh District; John Duncan, a blind clergyman, Ga. ; Bishop 

M. Simpson, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.; John Poisal, D.D., Baltimore, Md.; A. 
Schriver, Coeyman's Hollow, N. Y.; Bishop R. S. Foster, D D., Cincinnati, Ohio; 

Ware, Va. ; Duncan, D.D., President of Randolph 

Macon College, Wynona, Va. ; J. M. Thoburn, D.D , Bengal Presidency, India; 

Clarke Savannah, Ga. ; L. H. King, Newburgh, N. Y. ; Wiley, D.D., 

Madison, N. J. 



ROUND LAKE. 33 

fifteen sermons were delivered by ministers of the Troy Conference 
and by several Methodist clergymen from distant places, ^ 

On Monday morning, September nth, at ten o'clock, a spring of 
mineral water was penetrated by the drill at a depth of more than 
thirteen hundred feet from the surface of the ground. Late in the 
afternoon several gallons of turbid water were drawn from the well 
in the presence of a crowd of interested spectators, when the water 
was found to be similar in taste to that of the Congress Spring at 
Saratoga Springs. Mrs. Van Cott began singing the long meter 
doxology, in which she was joined by the persons standing near her. 
Congratulatory remarks were made by the Rev. L. H. King, D.D., of 
Newburgh, N. Y. ; the Rev. Homer Eaton, Albany; Joseph Hillman, 
President of the Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association, and by 
John D. Rogers, the superintendent of the grounds.* Subsequently, 
when the well was drilled to the depth of fourteen hundred and three 
feet and was tubed, the water was submitted to Prof. Charles F. 
Chandler, of Columbia College, whose analysis indicated that its 
composition differed little from the water of the Congress Spring at 
Saratoga Springs. 

On Thursday evening, September i6th, this thirteenth camp- 
meeting held at Round Lake ended with a sacramental service. 
Farewells were taken, with hand-shaking, and the singing of 

' ' Amen, amen , my soul replies, 

I'm bound to meet you in the skies, 

And claim my mansion there ; 
Now here's my heart and here's my hand 
To meet you in that heavenly land, 

Where we shall part no more." 

^ They were the Revs. Homer Eaton, Albany; W. J- Heath, Burlington, Vt. ; 

S. Meredith, Troy; L. N. Beaudry, Montreal, Canada; Rev. W. Butler, D.D., 

Mexico ; A. F. Bailey, Schuylerville, N. Y. ; P. Krohn, Albany; D. W. 

Foster, ; B. I. Ives, Auburn, N. Y. ; John P. Newman, D.D., Washington, 

D. C. : M. D. Jump, Williamstown. Mass.; D. T. Elliott, Charlton, N. Y. ; L. H. 
King. D.D., Newburgh; W. H. Meeker, Cohoes; Erastus Wentworth, D.D., 
Sandy Hill; Samuel McLaughlin, Albany. 

* The sample of mineral water submitted to me for examination contains, in one 
U. S. gallon of 231 cubic inches: 

Chloride of Sodium 394. 2943 grains. 

" Potassium 9-4363 " 

Bromide of Sodium 14716 " 

Iodide of Sodium I-3I52 " 

Fluoride of Sodium trace. 



34 ROUND LAKE. 

The extension of Burlington Avenue to the new gateway on the 
north side of the grounds, the erection of a number of cottages/ and 
the connection of the two pubUc dining halls by the removal of the 
intermediate walls were some of the noticeable improvements made 
prior to the Union Evangelistic camp-meeting held at Round Lake 
in July, 1877. 

The services of the Union Evangelistic camp-meeting were con- 
ducted by the Rev. S. H. Piatt, a distinguished Methodist minister 
from Brooklyn, N. Y. On Tuesday morning, July loth, a love feast 
inaugurated the exercises of the day. In the afternoon the Rev. 
Daniel Steel, D.D,, of Lynn, Mass., preached the first sermon.. The 
fifteen and more discourses delivered by the Revs. T. DeWitt Tal- 
mage, John P. Newman, D.D., O. H. Tiffany, D.D., A. B. Earle, E. 
P. Hammond, and other eminent divines and noted evangelists of 
different Christian denominations contributed to make the meeting 
one of special interest and importance. ^ The number of persons 
present at the services on Sunday morning and afternoon, July 15th, 

Bicarbonate of Lithia 2. 7494 grains. 

" Soda 48.9871 

" Magnesia 9.7846 " 

Lime 13-4457 

" Strontia 1.2038 " 

" Baryta 0.5520 " 

" Iron •. . 0.6344 " 

" Manganese 0.0768 " 

Sulphate of Potassa 10275 " 

Phosphate of Soda 0.0228 " 

Biborate of Soda trace. 

Alumina... 0.0346 " 

Silica 1.2247 " 

Organic Matter trace. 

486.260S 

Density 1.0059. 

C. F. CHANDLER, 

Chemist and Assayc7'. 
New York, August 2d, 1878. 

^ The new cottages were those of A. J. Waterman, Schenectady; Jesse Wilson, 
Hampton; Mrs. S. French, Troy; E. A. Peck, Troy; Philander Curtis, Schuyler- 
ville; Miss Harriet Russell, ; R. H. Robinson, Ballston Spa; Rev. 

John P. Newman, D.D., Washington, D. C; Van Valkenburgh, Ballston 

Spa; H. Alexander, Albany. 

^ Discourses were delivered by the Revs. Daniel Steel. D.D. , Lynn, Mass.; Hiram 
Eddy, D.D., Jersey City; Edgar M. Levy, D.D., Philadelphia; G. L. Taylor, D.D., 
New Rochelle; S. H. Piatt, Brooklyn; John P. Newman, D.D., Washington, D. 



ROUND LAKE. 



35 



were not less than ten thousand. From six to eight hundred vehicles 
entered the gates. The temperance meetings on Monday and Tues- 
day were largely attended. Addresses were made by the Rev. Bishop 
Gilbert Haven, D.D , of Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. S. McKean, of Fort 

Edward; Rev. S. H. Piatt, of Brooklyn; Johnson, of Brooklyn; 

Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, of Philadelphia; Miss M. E. Winslow and 
Miss Lottie Coffin, of Brooklyn. The services of the meeting ended 
on Thursday evening, July i8th. 




HON. GEORGE WEST S COTTAGE. 



From the First Sunday-School Assembly to the Gospel 
Temperance Meeting, 1877-1878. 

The first Sunday-School Assembly held on the grounds began its 
interesting sessions on Friday afternoon, July 22d, 1877, with from 

C. ; J. M. King, D.D., New York City; G. Hughes, Philadelphia; E. P. 

Hammond, ; C. C. McCabe, New York; A. B. 

Earle, ; A. C. Rose, Stillwater; B. M. Adams, Brooklyn; C. H. 

Fowler, D.D., New York City; John B. Thompson, D.D., Catskill, N. Y. ; 

Phelps, Vineland, N. J.; O. H. Tiffany, D.D., New York City. 



36 ROUND 1-AKE. 

three to four hundred persons in attendance. Its varied exercises 
were under the direction of the Rev. Alfred Taylor, D.D., of New 
York City. Addresses, Bible readings, sermons, lessons, microscopic 
and magic lantern exhibitions, concerts and praise meetings were so 
felicitously embraced in the week's programme that a more enjoy- 
able course of instruction it would seem could not have been pro- 
jected.^ A quintet from New York City, two men and three women 
of African descent, sang very attractively many Sunday-School 
hymns and songs during the sessions of the assembly. A concert, in 
which about a thousand persons and Holding's Cornet Band of 
Ballston Spa took part, terminated the exercises on Friday afternoon, 
July 27th. 

The first services of the seventh Troy Conference camp-meeting 
at Round Lake were held on Tuesday evening, September 4th, 1877. 
The Rev. L. Marshall, Presiding Elder of the Troy District, who 
had charge of it, preached that evening. The Women's Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society of Round Lake, of which Mrs. Joseph Hillman was 
president, held its annual meeting on Thursday afternoon, and was 
addressed by the Rev. R. Hoskins and Miss Pultz, returned mis- 
sionaries from India. On Sunday, September 9th, about three thou- 
sand people were on the grounds. The discourses delivered during 
this eight days' meetings were mostly preached by ministers of the 
Troy Conference. 2 The services terminated on Tuesday September 
II. 

^ Addresses were made by Revs. Alfred Taylor, D. D., New York City; Theodore 
L. Cuyler, D.D., Brooklyn; J. M. Freeman, D.D., New York City; Bishop Gilbert 

Haven, D.D., Atlanta, Ga. ; Anderson, England; H. C. Farrar, Troy, 

; O. A. Van Lennip, New York City; Rufus Wendell, Albany; B. B. 
Loomis, Albany; J. F. Clymer, Glens' Falls; B. F. Leipsner, Red Bank, N. J.; W. 
C. Steele, Brooklyn; J. McC. Holmes, D.D. , Albany; O. A. Bartholomew, Troy; 

Rufus W. Clark, D.D., Albany; Messrs. James H. Kellogg, Troy; Mairs, 

Schenectady; A. J. Hutton, West Troy; Prof. Starr, ; Miss Lucy 

J. Rider, Poultney, Vt. Sermons were preached by the Revs. Alfred Taylor, D.D. , 
J. M. Freeman, D.D. , H. C. Farrar, L. J. Matteson, D.D., Troy. The micro- 
scopic lessons and exhibitions were by Prof. Starr. 

2 Revs. L. Marshall, Presiding Elder of the Troy District; D. W. Dayton, Pre- 
siding Elder of the Saratoga District; S. M. Williams, Cambridge; D. B. McKenzie, 
Hampton; George Skene, Hoosick Falls; L. S. Walker, Greenbush; S. McKean, 
Presiding Elder of the Cambridge District; H. D. Kimball, Canajoharie; A. F. 
Bailey, Schiiylerville; S. McLaughlin, Amsterdam; Erastus Wentworth, D.D., 

Fort Edward; William Osborn, ; Homer Eaton, Presiding Elder of the 

Albany District; William Taylor, California; S. W. Brown, ; W. H. 

Washburn, Mechanicville; J. F. Clymer, Glens' Falls; Philip Krohn, Albany; 
John Anderson, evangelist. 



ROUND LAKE. 37 

Few of the improvements made at Round Lake attracted so much 
public attention and comment as those begun early in the spring 
of 1878. Cognizant of the fame and popular features of the fine 
grounds at Chautauqua, the Round Lake Camp- Meeting Association 
contracted with the Rev. W. W. Wythe, M.D., the designer of the 
highly-extolled topographical representation of the land of Palestine 
there, to construct one on the west side of the lake at the mouth 
of the brook flowing through the north part of the grounds. The 
miniature plot, completed in July, was about five hundred feet in 
length, on a scale of two and a half feet to a mile. A model of the 
City of Jerusalem, made by the Rev. W. W. Wythe, was exhibited 
near it during the summer. 

A large and well-appointed hotel, three stories high, with a base- 
ment and an attic, planned by J. L. Silsbee, architect, of Syracuse, 
N. Y., and built by J. W. Osborn, of Albany, was erected on the 
east side of Simpson avenue, between George and Saratoga avenues. 
The entire cost of the building was $22,661.24. A tunnel arched 
with brick, connecting the main with the eastern part of the grounds, 
was constructed under the highway opposite the boat landing. 

The first meeting at Round Lake in the summer of 1878 was that 
of the Sunday-School Assembly, under the direction of the Rev. J. 
H. Vincent, D.D., of New York City. He and his able co-helpers, 
whose methods of Sunday-School superintendence and teaching, 
black-board exercises, Bible-readings, lectures, and sermons delighted 
and instructed great numbers of children and adults, made this 
meeting one of special excellence and commendation.^ The vocal 
and instrumental music was under the direction of Prof. S. A. Ellis, 
of Boston. The Prof. O. A. Van Lennip's museum of Oriental 
curiosities and relics, Frank Beard's chalk lessons, Professor Starr's 

^ The following persons assisted the Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D. : Rev. Rufus 
Clark, D.D., Albany; Prof. W. C. Wilkinson, Rochester Theological Seminary; 
Rev. J. A. Worden, secretary of the Sunday School department of the Presbyterian 
Church, Philadelphia; Rev. L. T. Townsend, Boston; Frank Beard, New York City; 
Anson Green, D.D., Toronto, Canada; J. M. King, D.D., ; Prof. C. B. Stout, 

New Brunswick, N. J.; Rev. George Skene, Hoosick Falls; Rev. William Irvin, 
D.D., Troy; Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., Brooklyn; D. R. Niver, Albany; 
James H. Kelogg, Troy; J F. Clymer, Albany; B. B. Loomis, Plattsburgh; Mrs. 

John P. Newman, New York City; Clark Wilson and wife, ; Rev. J. A. 

Worden, Rev. W. H. Boole, D.D., New York City; Rev. Edward Eggleston, 
D.D., Brooklyn; Rev. P. A. Chadbourne, D.D., President of Williams College, 
Williamstown; Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., New York City; Prof. E. Warren 

Clark, ; Rev. B. K. Pierce, D.D., Boston; John E. Searles, jr.. New Haven, 

Conn.; Rev. C. H. Fowler, D.D., LL.D., ; George H. Thompson, Troy. 



38 ROUND LAKE. 

microscopic exhibitions, the singing of the Rev. Clark Wilson and 
his wife were also enjoyed and appreciated. The daily issue of the 
Little People's Paper, edited by the Rev. George Skene, was also 
popular. 

A correspondent of a well-known religious journal made the fol- 
lowing observations respecting the varied exercises : " On looking 
over the programme, the wonder is how all this could be covered in 
eight days. The wonder is no less to those who were there. But 
it was done, and that with a breadth and thoroughness that was 
scarcely less than marvelous — not only the two hours a day in the 
normal classes, but three lectures a day at the platform, and three 
conferences a day in the section tents, with two lectures a day at the 
Palestine park and model of the City of Jerusalem, * * * 

"A Palestine park, showing the cities, rivers and sacred mountains 
of the Holy Land, presented the largest and finest representation of 
Palestine ever made, while a model of Jerusalem did the same for 
that city. A personal examination of these, with the lectures given, 
fixed them more clearly in the mind than could anything else, except 
a visit to the land itself. Indeed, a lady of eminence, who had 
traveled over Palestine, said that she had never received so clear a 
general impression of it as she did by these representations."^ Fifty- 
five of the sixty-two persons examined on the subjects of the course 
of instruction of the second Round Lake Sunday-School Assembly 
received diplomas on Thursday, July 25th. On the afternoon of that 
day, the Round Lake Sunday-School Alumni Association was organ- 
ized. George B. Thompson, of Troy, N. Y., was elected pres- 
ident, and the Rev. George Skene, secretary. On Friday morn- 
ing, a short, farewell service closed the varied exercises of the 
assembly. 

The second Union Evangelistic meeting, conducted by the Revs. 
E, P. Hammond, A. B. Earle and C. C. McCabe, was begun on 
Tuesday evening, July 30th. The noted evangelists were assisted 
by a number of distinguished divines of the different churches. On 
Friday afternoon, August 2d, the Woman's Foreign Missionary 
Society held its annual meeting. Miss Fannie Sparks, of the India 
Mission, and the Rev. John P. Newman, of New York City, addressed 
the society. The pathetic singing of Charles Hale, a blind boy, and 
the heart- cheering and soul-stirring hymns of the Rev. Clark Wilson 
and wife were enjoyable features of the seven days' services. 

1 Cor. Presbyterian at Work. 



round lake. 39 

From thk Gospel Temperance Meeting to the Sixth Sunday- 
School Assembly, 1878-1882. 

The Gospel Temperance Meeting held at R(jund Lake from 
August 6th to August 17th, 1878, drew there the largest number of 
people interested in the cause of temperance ever known to have 
assembled in one place. On four different days, upwards of ten 
thousand, it was estimated, were on the grounds. And on no day 
were there less than four thousand. Francis Murphy, the renowned 
reformer and apostle of temperance, who had the direction of the 
meeting, evoked no little of the enthusiasm which made it so remark- 
• able in its results. He and his zealous co-workers by their persua- 
sive and practical speeches and personal experiences incited more 
than four thousand persons to take pledges of total abstinence from 
drinking spirituous liquors, and to wear the blue ribbon badge 
attesting their determination to keep their promises. ^ Prof. S. A. 
Ellis, of Boston, conducted the singing of a choir of fifty voices. 
The meeting closed on Sunday evening, August 17th. 

The sessions of the third Round Lake Sunday-School Assembly, 
conducted by the Rev. J. S. Ostrander, of New York City, began on 
Tuesday evening, July 8th, 1879. A wide range of instruction, 
embracing biblical exegesis, Sunday-school methods, kindergarten 
and calisthenic exercises, geography of the Holy Land, Hebrew 
architecture and archaeology, was studiously followed by large 
classes daily taught in different tents and buildings. A model of 
Herod's temple, the third one, about six feet square, covered with 
gold, and a. model of the wilderness tabernacle, fifteen by thirty feet, 
were also interesting studies. There were lectures on religious and 
scientific subjects and several excellent sermons. ^ On the last day 

^ Among the number of speakers were Captain Cyrus Sturdivant, Portland, Me. ; 
Eccles Robinson, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Gen. Robert Love, Steubenville, Ohio; Miss 
Frances E. Willard, Chicago; Rev. S. T. Upham, D. D., Boston; Joseph E. King, 
D.D., Fort Edward; Rev. H. S. Rankin, D.D., Elmira; Frank Brady, Philadelphia; 
Rev. JohnW. Mears, D. D. , Hamilton College; Col. Luther Caldwell, Elmira; Rev. 
S. McKean, Fort Edward; William Maxwell, Elmira; L. E. Griffith, Troy; George 
W. Sweet, Troy; George H. Stewart, Waterford; James Folsom, New Berlin; O. A. 
Brown, Gloversville ; John C. Blair, Troy; H. \V. Mundy, Brooklyn; Rev. H. C. 
Farrar, Troy. 

^ The lectures were by the Revs. William Hayes Ward, D.D., New York City; 
A. F. Bailey, Dalton, Mass.; D. W. Gates, Glens' Falls; John P. Newman, D.D., 
New York City; H. C. Farrar, Gloversville; George Skene, Troy; J. E. King, 
D.D., Fort Edward; J. E. C. Sawyer, Albany; B. B. Loomis, Pittsburgh; Henry 



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ROUND LAKE. 



of the assembly, Friday, July i8th, thirty-five persons received 
diplomas and became members of the Round Lake Sunday School 
Alumni Association. The vocal music was under the direction of 
Prof. W. Warren Bentley, of New York. 




COTTAGE OF REV. JOSEPH E. KING, D.D. 

Darling, D.D., Albany; D. M. Reeves, D.D., Albany; M. D. Jump, Lansing- 
burgh; J. M. King, D.D., New York City; F. Widmer, Pittsfield, Mass. 

On Sunday, July 13th, sermons were delivered by the Revs. E. Wentworth, D.D., 
Sandy Hill; Gushing, . 

Miss Jennie B. Merrill, professor of methods in New York College, had charge 
of the primary work, Miss Helena L. Davis, of New York City, kindergarten 
instructor; and Miss Clara B. Sargent, of New York City, calisthenics. 



ROUND LAKE. 4I 

The eighth Troy Conference camp-meeting, conducted by the 
Rev. S. McKean, D.D , Presiding Elder of the Cambridge District, 
began on Tuesday evening, July 22d, 1879. The Rev. R. H. 
Robinson, of Greenbush, preached that evening. Twenty-five other 
discourses were preached on the nine succeeding days of this inter- 
esting meeting. It closed with a sacramental service on Thursday 
evening, July 31st. 

The Woman's National Temperance Union held its sessions on 
the grounds from Thursday evening, August 19th, to August 26th, 
1879. The addresses of Mrs. Anne Whittenmeyer (who had charge 
of the meetings) and her co-workers daily attracted large numbers 
of people to Round Lake.^ 

The second Gospel Temperance meeting, conducted by Francis 
Murphy, began at Round Lake on Thursday afternoon, September 
4th, and interestingly continued through the succeeding three days. 
Large audiences were daily present and many persons pledged 
themselves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors. Besides 
the speeches of the eloquent advocate of temperance, those of his 
son and associates were enthusiastic and convincing. 

The forty-sixth camp-meeting of the National Camp-Meeting 
Association for the promotion of holiness attracted to Round Lake 

1 They were preached by the Revs. J. M. Edgerton, Bethlehem; L. N. Beaudry, 
Montreal, Canada; W. W. Foster, Charlton; J. W. Eaton, North Adams; E. 
Wentworth, D.D., Sandy Hill; D. Cronk, Whitehall; Henry Graham, Troy; B. I. 
Ives, Auburn; D. B. McKenzie, West Sandlake; B. F. Sharpe, Greenwich; E. A, 
Braman, Brunswick; Charles Fletcher, New York City; S. McLoughlin, Amster- 
dam; S. H. Coleman, Gloversville; G. A. Barrett, Albany; D. W. Gates, Glens' 
Falls; Edwin George, ■ Clifton Park; H. C. McBride, Newark, N. J.; S. W.. 
Clemens, Broadalbin; A. Ingalls, Granville; J. L. Atwell, Middleburgh; H. C. 
Farrar, Gloversville; J. E. King, D.D., Fort Edward; S. W. Edgerton, Fort 
Ann; George Skene, Troy 

^ The speakers were Mrs. Anne Whittenmeyer, ; Mrs. Butler, 

; Mrs. Post, , Pa.; Mrs. Johnson, Brooklyn; Mrs. • 

Courtney, ; Mrs. Wilkins, , Vt ; Mrs. Letitia Youmans, Pictou, 

Canada; Mrs. Beecher, New York City; Mrs. Mary T. Burt, ; 

Mrs. Hill, Newark, N. J ; Mrs. Denham. ; Mrs. 

Percival, Poughkeepsie; Mrs. Gray, Albany; Miss Anna Park, Bennington, 

Vt. ; Miss Julia Coleman, New York City; Mrs. Stowe, New York City; Miss M. 
E. W inslow, New York City. 

* Thomas E. Murphy, Eccles Robinson, Hon. Lewis E. Griffith, Troy; Joseph 

De Goyler, Troy; Justus Miller, Troy; Charles Wenzell; Hon. Brown, 

Galesburgh, 111.; the Revs. W. H. Foster, jr.. Fort Edward; H. D. Kimball, 
Albany; S. M. Williams, Cohoes; S. McKean, D.D., Fort Edward. 



42 ROUND LAKE. 

in 1880 people from twenty-nine states of the Union. About a hun- 
dred of the members of the Young People's Camp-Meeting Asso- 
ciation of Ohio, in charge of Prof. R. E. Hudson, of Alliance, 
Ohio, with a quartette of excellent singers, attended the ten days' 
services. Nearly as large a body of visitors from the city of Phila- 
delphia, under the escort of J. D. Ware, editor of the Carriage 
Monthly^ was also present. The Rev. Bishop R. S. Foster, of 
Boston, was of the number of distinguished ministers who preached.^ 
The Rev. John S. Inskip, of Philadelphia, editor of the Christian- 
Standard, had charge of the meeting, which began on Saturday after- 
noon, June 12th, 1880, and ended on Monday morning, June 21st. 

The purpose of making the Round Lake Sunday-School assem- 
blies as popular as those of Chautauqua was again disclosed in the 
selection of the instructors and in the subjects embraced in the 
course of study and in the series of lectures of the assembly of July, 
1880. The highly-qualified and distinguished superintendent of 
Sunday-school work, the Rev. J. A. Worden, of Princeton, N. J., 
had charge of it. He was ably assisted by S. W. Clark, associate 
editor of The Sunday-School Times, the Rev. H. C. Farrar, the Rev. 
B. B. Loomis, the Rev. Frederick Widmer, and the Rev. B. S. 
Everett. The sessions of the assembly began on Tuesday evening, 
July 20th, and terminated on Thursday evening, July 29th. The 
number of people attending them exceeded five thousand on one 
day. The course of lectures was exceedingly interesting and 
instructive.^ 

The masterly treatment of the subject, " The Trial and Convic- 
tion of Christ," by the Rev. Thomas Armitage, D.D., of the Fifth 

^ Those who preached were the Revs. John S. Inskip, Philadelphia; G. D. Wat- 
son, New Albany, Ind. ; John A. Wood, North Attleboro, Mass. ; W. L. Gray, 
Port Richmond, Pa.; R. A. Caruthers, Philadelphia; J. N. Short, Stoneham, 
Mass.; C. Munger, Kent's Hill, Me.; J. B. Foote, Canastota, N. Y. ; Bishop R. 
S. Foster, Boston, Mass. ; Alexander McLean, Yonkers, N. Y. ; Joshua Gill, South 
Framingham, Mass. ; David Updegraff (Society of Friends), Mount Pleasant, Ohio; 
George Hughes, Trenton, N. J.; William McDonald, Brookline, Mass. 

^ The lectures were by the following persons: Anthony Comstock, of New York 
City, secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, " Evil Reading"; Rev. J. 
A. Worden, Princeton, N. J., "John Wesley "; Rev. George Macloskie, D.D., of 
Princeton College, "Skulls"; Rev. P. Stryker, D.D., Saratoga Springs, "Travels 
in the Orient "; Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., New York City, " Religious Educa- 
tion the Safety of the Nation "; Rev. Arthur A. Waite, Sandy Hill, " Magic "; Rev. 
W. P. Breed, D.D., Philadelphia, " History of a Mirror"; Rev. Francis L. Patton, 
D.D,, Chicago, " Doubt''; Rev. R. W. Clark, Albany, " Sunday- School Work in 
foreign lands"; Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Fort Edward, " Men and Manners." 



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Baptist Church of New York City, ehcited the highest commenda- 
tions. The first discourse embraced the consideration of the reUg- 
ious trial of Christ before the Jewish Sanhedrim; the second, the 
civil trial of Christ before Pilate by the Roman law. 

The crayon lessons of the Rev. Arthur A, Waite were admirable 
and impressive. The Sunday and other day sermons were excel- 
lent.^ On Thursday morning, July 29th, the Round Lake Alumni 
Association held its annual meeting. The following persons were 
elected officers for 1 880-1: Rev. M. D. Jump, president; George B. 
Thompson, vice-president; S. Palmer, secretary; A. R. Moore, treas- 
urer. In the afternoon twenty-six graduates received diplomas. 




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^ The sermons were by the following: Rev. Thomas Armitage, D.D., New York; 
Rev. J. F. Yates, Albany; Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Fort Edward; Rev. J. A. 
Worden, Princeton, N. J.; Rev. A. A. Hodge, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, N. J. 



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The meeting of the Woman's National Christian Temperance 
Union, under the direction of Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago, 
was held on the grounds in August. The opening exercises on Wed- 
nesday evening, August i ith, were conducted by Mrs, Mary C. John- 
son, of Brooklyn. Mrs. Letitia Youmans, of Pictou, Canada, and 
other earnest advocates of temperance delivered addresses.^ The 
meeting closed on Sunday evening, August T5th, 

The thirteenth Troy Conference camp-meeting, held at Round 
Lake from Wednesday evening, September ist, 1880, to Friday 
morning, September loth, was conducted by the Rev. T. A. Griffin, 
Presiding Elder of the Saratoga District. The presence of seventy- 
six Methodist and other denominational ministers on the grounds 
during the meeting was a gratifying indication of the wide interest 
taken in the services of the annual camp-meetings held at Round 
Lake. 2 

The Round Lake Sunday School Assembly of 1881 was no less 
notable for thorough work and interesting lectures than the preced- 
ing assemblies. The zealous instructors were not only highly quali- 
fied as biblical scholars, but were admirably fitted to impart with 
terseness the knowledge of the subjects studied in the departments 
assigned them. The chief chairs of instruction were filled by the 
Revs. H. C. Farrar, B. B. Loomis, George Skene, Frederick Widmer, 
and M. D, Jump. They were assisted by the Revs. Henry D. Kim- 
ball, W. H. Washburne, S. McLaughlin, A. J. Ingalls, D. W. Gates, 
S. M. Williams and Prof. H. A. Wilson. Illustrated lessons on the 
blackboard were daily sketched by H. J. Rock, of Plattsburgh. 
Thirteen excellent lectures were embraced in the course. The Sun- 
day services included three noteworthy sermons." The opening 

^ Among the number of women who made addresses were Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, 
of Detroit; Mrs. Beecher, of Newark; Miss E. W. Greenwood, of Brooklyn; Mrs. 
C. C. Alford, New York; Mrs. F. G. Hibbard, of Clifton Springs; Mrs. M. F. 
Burt, of Brooklyn; Miss Esther Pugh, of New York; Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer, of 
Philadelphia; Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Clinton, Iowa; Mrs. Mary R. Denham. 

* Sermons were preached by the following ministers: Revs. A. J. Ingalls, Gran- 
ville; H. C. Farrar, Gloversville; E. Wentworth, D.D., Sandy Hill; B. I. Ives, 
Auburn; Samuel McKean, D. D., Fort Edward; T. C. Potter, Mechanicville; 
Henry Graham, Troy; J. E. Russum, Adamsville; Joel W. Eaton, Lansingburgh; 
G. A. Barrett, Albany; S. McLaughlin, North Adams, Mass. 

* The lectures were by the Rev. Samuel McKean, D.D., North Adams, Mass., 
" The Relation of Religious Truth to Mental Development"; Rev. Homer Eaton, 
D.D., Saratoga Springs, " California and the Yosemite"; Rev. George W. Brown, 
Fort Plain, "Boys"; Rev. Frederick Widmer, Lansingburgh, "Crfeation"; Prof. 



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services on Wednesday evening, July 6th, 1881, were conducted by 
the Rev. Frederick Widmer, Presiding Elder of the Troy District, 
On Saturday afternoon, July 9th, the Round Lake Branch of the 
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was organized. The ses- 
sions of this the fifth Round Lake Sunday-School Assembly ended 
on Tuesday afternoon, July 12th. 

The National Camp-Meeting Association began the first services 
of its meeting at Round Lake in 1881 on Tuesday evening, July 12th. 
The initial sermon was delivered by the Rev. John S. Inskip on 
Wednesday morning. The subjects of the sermons of the dis- 
tinguished ministers who preached were connected with that of per- 
sonal holiness. The cogent arguments of these discourses and the 
peculiar treatment of them greatly animated the thought and feeling 
of the large audiences gathered daily and nightly in the auditorium. 1 
The meeting closed on Thursday morning, July 21st. 

The Rev. Frederick Widmer, Presiding Elder of the Troy District, 
conducted the fourteenth Troy Conference camp-meeting, which be- 
gan on Friday evening, July 22d, 1881, and closed on Monday, 
August I St. This meeting was richly blessed, and many converts 
accepted Christ as their Saviour,^ 

J. B. Armstrong, Poultney, Vt., Scientific; Rev. B. Hawley, D.D., Saratoga 
Springs, " Man and his Social Ties"; Rev. J. E. C. .Sawyer, Albany, "Savonarola"; 
Rev. Henry Graham, Troy, " Young Men "; Rev. Daniel Dorchester, D.D., Natick, 
Mass., " Religious Progress"; Rev. C. W. Bennett, D.D., Syracuse University, 
" Typical Cities of the New Testament"; Rev. J. M. Buckley, D.D. , New York 
City, " The Science and Art of Questioning"; Rev. E. Wentworth, D.D., Sandy 
Hill, " The Chinese Language"; Rev. John Humpstone, Albany, " Chrysostom " ; 
Rev. Merritt Hulburd, Burlington, Vt., " The Dynamics of the Sunday-School In- 
stitute." 

The sermons preached were by the Rev. J. M. Buckley, D.D., editor of " Christ- 
ian Advocate"; Rev. Daniel Dorchester, D.D., Rev. C. W. Bennett, D.D. 

1 The sermons were preached by the Revs. John S. Inskip, Philadelphia; W. L. 

Gray, Philadelphia; J. A. Wood, ; J. E. Searles, Bridgeport, Conn.; W. 

McDonald, Brookline, Mass.; I. Simmons, Brooklyn; B. W. Gorham, ; R. 

A. Caruthers, Philadelphia; Bray, ; C. S. Uzzell, Golden, Col.; D. 

J. Grififin, Mass.; J. N. Short, Stoneham, Mass.; Morse, Putnam, 

Mass. ; William Taylor, , Cal. 

2 The ministers who preached were the Revs. Frederick Widmer, Lansingburgh; 
C. Edwards, Whitehall; D. B. McKenzie, Crescent; J. Bridgeford. Shushan; 
Damas Brough, Fonda; R. H. Robinson, Greenbush; G. W. Easton, Maltaville; 
E. Genge, Clifton Park; J. M. Edgerton, Waterford; George Skene, Troy; H. A. 
Starks, Fort Edward; J. L. Humphreys, India; L. S. Walker, Sandy Hill; D. W. 
Gates, West Troy; S. McLaughlin, Glens' Falls; Samuel McKean, D.D.,. North 



46 ROUND LAKE. 

The Gospel Temperance meeting held on the grounds from 
Thursday evening, September 8th, iS8t, to Sunday evening, Sep- 
tember nth, was largely attended by persons who had abandoned 
the use of intoxicating liquors. About one hundred and fifty pledges 
of total abstinence were taken during the meeting.^ 

The services of the National Holiness Convention organized at 
Round Lake on Tuesday morning, July 4th, 1882, the Rev. J. S. 
Inskip, president, were attended by persons from all parts of the 
United States, and by some from Canada, England, India, and the 
West Indies. The sessions of the convention closed on Wednesday 
night, July 5th. ^ 

The annual meetings of the National Camp-Meeting Association 
at Round Lake were always well, if not largely, attended, and few 
of the ministers who preached failed to edify their hearers and to 
impress upon their minds the importance of holiness, which was the 
subject generally discoursed upon in the three sermons daily heard 
in the auditorium. The meeting of 1882 began on Thursday morn- 
ing, July 6th, and ended on Thursday night, July 13th. Some of 
the rtiinisters taking part in the services were from distant states in 
the South and West. 

From the Sixth Sunday-School Assembly to the First 
Summer School, 1882-1886. 

The Board of Instruction of the sixth Round Lake Sunday-School 
Assembly, in July, 1882, was the same as that of the assembly of 

Adams; I. C. Fenton, West Troy; J. G. Fallon, Troy; Miss Elizabeth Delavan, 
; Revs. C. V. Grismer, Gansevoort; J. H. Robinson, Fort Ann; Joseph E. 
King, D D. , Fort Edward. 

^ The principal speakers were Mrs. Letitia Youmans. of Pictou, Canada; Mrs. 
J. Ellen Foster, of Clifton, Iowa; Col. Luther Caldwell, Elmira, and Hon. L. E. 
Griffith, Troy. 

^ The principal speakers were the Revs. John S. Inskip, Philadelphia; William 
McDonald, Brookline, Mass.; William Taylor, San Francisco, Cal. ; J. A. Watson, 
D.D., Philadelphia. 

^ Discourses were delivered by the Revs. J. S. Inskip, Philadelphia; J. A. Wood, 
S. H. Henderson, Hastings, Neb.; William Jones, D.D., Lawrence, Kan.; George 

Prindle, , Iowa; J. A. Watson, D D., Philadelphia; C. Munger, Fayette, 

Me.; J. B. Foote. Jamesville, N. Y. ; Haney, ; William McDonald, 

; J. N. Short, Cambridge, Mass.; A. J. Jarrall, , Georgia; R. T. 

Kent. Griffin, Ga. ; G. H. Pattello, , Ga. ; j. E. Searles, New York; J. W. 

Brindell. Manchester, Iowa; A. McLean, Newburgh, N. Y.; E. M. Levy, D.D., 
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1881. The Rev. Frederick Widmer was general superintendent, 
the Rev George Skene instructor of the primary class, the Rev. H. 
C. Farrar of the normal, the Rev. B. B. Loomis of the post-gradu- 
ate, and the Rev. M. D. Jump conductor of the conferences. H. J. 
Rock illustrated the lessons on the blackboard. Nearly one hun- 
dred children attended the primary course of instruction ; seventy 
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in the post-graduate. Each of the instructors read carefully-pre- 
pared papers on the subjects studied by their classes. A series of 
admirable and instructive lectures was delivered by different 
clergymen and educated men in the auditorium.^ The first services 

1 The lectures were by the following persons : Rev. H. A. Starks, Fort Edward- 
" Culture"; Rev. Joel W. Eaton, D.D., Lansingburgh, "Russia and the Greek 
Church"; Rev. Elam Marsh, Argyle, "John the Baptist"; Rev. H. M. King, 
D.D., Albany, " Africa, past and present "; Rev. William H. Hughes, Schenectady, 
"Moral Dwarfs"; Mr. S. C. Hutchins, Albany, "The Newspaper and Civiliza- 
tion"; Prof. Edward H. Rice, Pittsfield, "David and his Scholars"; Attarian 
Effendi, Armenia, "The People of Turkey"; Rev. S. V. Leech, D.D.. Albany, 
"The Perils of Genius"; Rev. G. S. Chadbourne, Cambridge, Mass., "Your 
"Work"; Prof. C. V. D. Connell, Millport, N. Y., "The Interim"; Rev. J. W. 
Thompson, Greenbush, " Illusions and Mistakes"; Rev. Henry A. Cordo, D.D., 
Gloversville, "The Sunday-School Ideal"; Rev. William J. Heath, Cohoes, 
" Music and its Uses " ; Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, Albany, "Right Royal"; Rev. 



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of prayer and praise were held on Wednesday evening, July 19th. 
The sessions of the assembly closed on Friday, July 28th. On the 
last day of the assembly the Rev. H. C. Farrar suggested the need 
of a building for the use of the alumni, and urged the erection of 
one on the grounds. Eleazer A. Peck, of Troy, to further the 
undertaking, generously gave two of his lots at Round Lake as a 
subscription. 

An enjoyable event of the summer of 1882 was the presentation 
of the oratorio of " Joseph '' on Thursday evening, August loth, in the 
auditorium. About sixty singers, under the direction of Prof. C. G. 
Norris, of Troy, rendered the different parts of the sacred com- 
position. 

The introductory services of the fifteenth Troy Conference camp- 
meeting at Round Lake, conducted by the Rev, J. E. C. Sawyer, 
Presiding Elder of the Albany District, on Tuesday evening, August 
15th, 1882, were the devotional exercises of prayer and praise com- 
mon to the first meeting day. Daily thereafter three sermons were 
usually preached; the audiences numbering from five hundred to 
two thousand people. 1 The meeting closed on Friday morning, 
August 25th, with a service of prayer and praise. 

The Gospel Temperance meeting, conducted by the Rev. Samuel 
McKean, D.D., of North Adams, Mass., assisted by the Rev. H. C. 
Farrar, of Troy, N. Y., began on Thursday afternoon, September 
7th, 1882, and closed on the following Sunday evening. Rev. and 

Henry Gordon, D.D., Coila, "Divine Revelation a necessity "; Attarian Effendi, 
" Life in Turkey " ; Rev. Henry D. Kimball, New Bedford, Mass., "Henry of 
Navarre"; Prof. F. W. Stowell, Gloversville, "The Creative Week"; Rev. J. H. 
Griffith, D.D., Troy, " Power of Character." 

Prof H. A. Williams, of Albany, gave a series of readings, and Prof. H. A. 
Wilson, of Saratoga Springs, lectured on the Holy Land at Palestine Park. 

The sermons preached were by the Revs. George S. Chadbourne and S. V. 
Leech, D.D. 

1 The following ministers preached sermons : Revs. C. W. Rowley, East Green- 
bush; W. J. Chapman, Sprout Brook; L. S. Walker, Castleton; W. J. Heath, 
Cohoes; F. Wilson, Hudson; B. K. Pierce, D.D., Boston; E. Wentworth, D.D., 
Sandy Hill; T. G. Thompson, D.D., Kinderhook; S V. Leech, D.D., Albany, - 
G. W. Brown, Saratoga Springs; J. W. Thompson, Greenbush; J. E. C. Sawyer, 
Albany; D. W. Gates, Albany; R. H. Robinson, West Troy; E. Genge, Green. 
Island; J. H. Robinson, Fort Ann; E. McChesney, Troy; G. A. Barrett, Balls- 
ston Spa; Samuel McKean, D.D., North Adams, Mass.; William M. Bundage, 
Ames, N. Y. ; Bostwick Hawley, D.D. , Saratoga Springs; Alfred Eaton, Wilton; 
Merritt Hulburd Burlington, Vt. ; J. H. Coleman, Albany; S. M. Williams, Valley 
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Mrs. Clark Wilson, of Towanda, Pa., were the chief singers. A num- 
ber of excellent addresses on temperance was delivered by promi- 
nent clergymen and other advocates of total abstinence, i 

No meetings were held on the grounds during the year 1883. 
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"^ ijRev. John P. Newman, New York, "Attitudes of temperance to the political 
issues of the day"; Rev. S. V. Leech, Albany, " The battle for prohibition in the 
Empire State"; Henry C. Bascom, Troy, "Relations of diet t;o drunkenness"; 
Rev. H. C. Farrar, Troy, poem; Rev. G. H. Corey, Tarrytown, address; Charles 
Wenzell, West Troy; Rev. D. W. Dayton, Amsterdam. 



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ative improvements, and was for a time unable to adjust its affairs 
acceptably to its creditors. Fortunately, the efforts and contribu- 
tions of the officers, lot-owners, and friends of the association were 
the means of lessening its liabilities and of reducing its debt. A 
resolution was passed at the meeting of the trustees on February 2d, 
1884, thanking the late bondholders for their generous concessions 
and the friends of the association who had wholly or in part surren- 
dered the bonds held by them or who had made subscriptions 
whereby the indebtedness of the association was reduced from 
$98,000 to $25,000. 

The first of the three meetings held on the grounds in 1884, was 
the Round Lake Sunday-School Assembly, which began its sessions 
with a vesper service on Tuesday evening, July 15th. The Rev. H. 
C. Farrar was the instructor of the normal class, the Rev. B. B. 
Loomis of the post-graduate, and the Rev, George Skene of the 
primary. The kindergarten was in charge of Mrs, Helena D. Van 
Denburg. Elocution was taught by Miss Anna H. Lancashire, and 
painting and clay modeling by Miss Ida H. Pulis. Crayon lessons 
on the blackboard were given by H. J. Rock. Prof, A. E. Decker 
conducted the singing, and Miss Anna Loomis was organist. The 
course of instruction embraced many new subjects of stud}^ and dis- 
cussion, and the series of daily lectures was highly appreciated. ^ 

^ The subjects of the lectures were : "' The importance of special work for young 
men," by Rev. T. G. Darling, Schenectady; " The necessity for the Young Men's 
Christian Association," by Rev. Charles W. Cushing, D.D., Rochester; "Tying 
and Tied," by Rev. Ellis S. Osborne, D.D., Kingston; "Charles H. Spurgeon," 
by Rev. Henry M. King, D.D., Albany; "One-third of a man," by Rev. E. D. 
Huntley, D.D., Washington, D. C. ; " Should the education the American college 
gives be whollyreligious ? " by Rev. Henry Darling, D.D., Hamilton College; " The 
church of the future as our educator," by Rev, C. N. Sims, D. D., LL.D,, Chancel- 
lor of Syracuse University; " The air, its chemical properties and physical quali- 
ties," by Prof. William W. McGilton, Fort Edward; " The Bible among the sacred 
books," by Rev. Ensign McChesney, Ph.D., Troy; "A budget of blunders," by 
Rev. M. D. Jump, Burlington, Vt. ; "Mexico," by Rev. WilHam Butler, D.D , 
India; " North America evangelized — the evangelizer of the world," by Rev. C. P. 
Sheldon, D.D., Troy; " The missionary spirit of the Sunday-School," by James H. 
Kellogg, Troy; "Bible customs and manners," by Attarian Effendi, Armenia; 
" Bible astronomy," by R. C. Clark, Whitehall; " The book we study," by Rev. 
R. R. Meredith, D.D., Boston; "Paris," by Rev. James M. King, D.D., New 
York City; " Webster, Irving and Mrs. Browning as models for students," by Rev, 
S. V. Leech, D. D., Albany; "God in history," by Rev. E. P. Stevens, Hoosick 
Falls; " Money and morals," by Hon. H. G. Coggeshall, Waterville, N. Y. 

The Sunday sermons were delivered by the Rev. William Butler, D. D., Mission- 
ary from India, and the Rev. E. D. Huntley, D.D., of Washington, D. C. 



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Wednesday, July i6th, was denominated the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association Day; Friday, July i8th. College Day; Monday^ 
July 2ist, Missionary Day; Wednesday, July 23d, Chautauqua Lit- 
erary and. Scientific Circle Day; Thursday, July 24th, Commence- 
ment Day. Special exercises marked each of the days. 

On Friday afternoon, July i8th, Alumni Hall, on the south side 
of Whitfield Avenue, was dedicated. The erection of the building 
was begun in April, and in June it was completed, at a cost of 
$1,900; the money having been contributed by the alumni and the 
friends of the Round Lake Alumni Association. The dedicatory 
exercises at the Auditorium included an address by the zealous 
projector and earnest supporter of the undertaking, the Rev. H. C. 
Farrar, one by the Rev. William Griffin, D.D., and the reading of a 
dedicatory poem by the Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., who wrote it. 
At Alumni Hall, a dedicatory prayer was offered by the Rev. R. H. 
Robinson, D.D., which was followed by the singing of the long 
meter doxology, and by the benediction, pronounced by the Rev. 
Ensign McChesney, Ph.D. 

The musical and literary entertainment on Saturday evening, July 
19th, was attended by more than two thousand people. On Thurs- 
day evening, July 24th, the exercises of Commencement Day con- 
cluded those of the assembly. 

The first services of the sixteenth Troy Conference camp-meet- 
ing at Round Lake, on Tuesday evenmg, August 12th, 1884, were 
attended by more than six hundred persons. The Rev. J. H. Bond, 
Presiding Elder of the Plattsburgh District, had the direction of the 
services of the six days* meeting, which closed on Monday morning, 
At^ust 1 8th, with a love-feast.^ 

The third, and last meeting of the year, was the Gospel Temper- 
ance meeting conducted by the Rev. John A. Copeland, of Lan- 
caster, New York, It began on Tuesday afternoon, August 26th, 
and continued to Monday evening, September ist. The presence 
and addresses of ex-Governor John P. St. John, of Kansas, the 

^ Sermons were preached by the following ministers: Revs. J. C. Russum, 
Troy; C. W. Rowley, Canajoharie ; W. W. Foster, Clifton Park; H. C. Farrar, 
Troy; D. N. Lewis, Jonesville; S. V. Leech, D.D., Albany; Henry Graham, 
Gloversville; James M. King, D.D., New York; A. D. Heaxt, Westport; L. Mar- 
shall, Johnstown; T. G. Thompson, Granville; P. L. Dow, Quaker Springs; Joseph 

E. King. D.D., Fort Edward; L N. Beaudry, Montreal; Colman (Baptist), 

Bridgeport, Conn. 



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presidential candidate of the Prohibition party, gave considerable 
fame to the meeting, i 

A most enjoyable occasion was the Grand Army and Chaplains' Re- 
union at Round Lake, under the direction of Colonel G. A, Cantine, 
of Rome, N. Y., post department inspector. The Albany City Band 
furnished the instrumental music. On Thursday morning, Septem- 
ber 4th, the two days' meeting was inaugurated by an address of wel- 
come delivered by Col. G, A. Cantine, which was responded to by 
the Rev. E. L. Allen, D.D., of Highland, N, Y., department chap- 
lain of the Grand Army of the Republic. The posts of Troy, 
Albany, Cohoes, West Troy, Argyle, Schenectady and the other 
neighboring places were largely represented. On Friday afternoon, 
Col. Frederick D. Grant came from Mount McGregor, bringing 




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from his sick father " cordial greetings to the old soldiers '' meeting 
at Round Lake, of whom there were about three thousand on the 

^ The other prominent speakers were Mrs. Laura G. Faxon, of Albert Lee, Minn. ; 
Mrs. Letitia Youmans, Canada; Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, Detroit; Rev. Daniel 
Dorchester, D.D., Natick, Mass.; Mrs. C. H. St. John, Denver, Col.; Mrs. W. H. 
Boole, Brooklyn; ex-Gov. John P. St. John; Rev. W. H. Boole, Brooklyn. 



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grounds. That afternoon, the Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., of New 
York City, eloquently spoke on " the Civil War and its results." 
The interesting exercises of the afternoon terminated the meeting. 

The Round Lake Sunday-School Assembly of 1885 greatly 
advanced the fame of the chief instructors who, with much pains- 
taking and zeal, acquitted themselves of their respective duties in 
the departments of which they had charge. The instruction of the 
post-graduate class was assigned to the Rev. H. C. Farrar, and that 
of the normal class to the Rev. B. B. Loomis. Miss Stella M. King 
had charge of the boys and girls' department, Miss Helena C. 
Augustine of the kindergarten, and Miss Martha Van Marter of the 
primary conferences. Miss Eliza M. Clark taught drawing, Mrs. 
Frank J. Harris painting, Mrs. M. F. Biscoe elocution, Mrs. K. J, 
Boughton clay modeling, M. A. Walter phonography, and Edward 
Marsh penmanship. Prof. J. E. Van Olinda was musical director 
and Miss Clara Stearns pianist. The long session of fourteen days, 
beginning on Tuesday evening, July 14th, and ending on Monday 
evening, July 27th, was made exceedingly interesting by profitable 
and enjoyable courses of study, musical and literary entertainments, 
and a large number of lectures on many important subjects. 1 A 

^ The subjects of the lectures were the following: " Work and Workers," " Mate- 
rialism and the Microscope," by Rev. D. H. Snowdon, Ph.D., 111.; "An Old 
Castle," '"College Education," by Prof. T. C Winchester, of Wesleyan University; 
" Natural Law in the Spirit World," by Rev J. Zweifel, Whitehall; "Elijah," an 
epic poem, by Rev. George Lansing Taylor, D.D , Brooklyn; " English Literature 
and Culture," " Rise and Decline of the English Drama and the Growth of Prose," 
" Milton and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century," " Some Literary Londoners 
of the Eighteenth Century," by Prof. William E. Mead, Troy; "The Story of a 
piece of Sandstone, Coal and Marble," by Prof. W. W. McGilton, Fort Edward; 
" Among the Glaciers of the High Alps." by Rev. L J. Lansing, New York; "' The 
Pyramids," " The Tabernacle," by Rev. H. A. Starks, Albany; " Historic Art," by 
J. L. Corning, D.D., Terre Haute, Ind. ; " The Christology of the Bible," by Rev, 
C. F. Burdick, Valley Falls; "Crime and its Shadows," by Rev. Silas Edgerton, 
chaplain of Sing Sing prison; " Beauty," by Eugene Bouton, Albany; " The Bible 
in the Light of Recent Discoveries in Oriental Lands," by Rev. John P. Newman, 
D,D., New York; " Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament," by Rev. T. G. 
Thompson, Granville; "Divorce, its Causes and Effects," "The Family as an 
American Institution," "The Divorce Question in the Light of Modern Civihzation," 
by Rev. Samuel W. Dike, Royalton, Vt. ; "Old Catacombs," by Rev. W. H. 
Withrow, D.D., Toronto, Canada; " Paul at Athens," by Rev. W. W. Foster, jr., 
Albany; " The Uses of Ugliness." by Rev. Jahu DeWitt Miller, Philadelphia; 
"The Industrial Policy of England," by E. A. Hartshorn, Troy; "Plato and 
John, the Apostle, Compared," by Rev. H. A. Buttz, D.D., Madison, N. J.; " The 
Word Within the Word," by Rev. A. D. Vail, D.D., New York; " Old Clothes," 



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model of the Tabernacle and a half-section of the Great Pyramid, in 
miniature, were erected near Alumni Hall, and were the subjects of 
several lectures. On Sunday, July 19th, the new auditorium was 
dedicated by the Rev. John P. Newman, D.D. The building, 104 
by 80 feet, erected at a cost of $3,152 18, was furnished with sittings 
for two thousand people. The two concerts of vocal and instru- 
mental music, conducted by Prof. J. E. Van Olinda, were enjoyed 
by large audiences. The exercises on C. L. S. C. Day, July 2ist,^ 




JOHN D. ROGERS COTTAGE. 

by A. L. Blair, Saratoga Springs; "Cross Wives," by Rev. V. M. Simmons, 
Springfield, Mass.; "The New Testament Missionary Worlv," by Rev. J. E. C. 
Sawyer, Troy. 

The sermons were preached by the Rev. H. A- Buttz, D. D., president of 
Drew Theological Seminary, Rev. John P. Newman, D. D., Rev. I. J. Lansing, 
and by Rev. Edwin F. See, Albany. 

On Missionary Day addresses were made by the Rev. N. G. Clark, secretary of 
the A. B. C. F. M., and by Chaplain C. C. McCabe, secretary of the Missionary 
Society. 

' On C. L. S. C. Day the Rev. John H. Viacent, D.D., New York, delivered an 
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and on Sunday, July 26th, Young Men's Christian Association Day, 
were made very interesting. 1 

The Troy Conference camp-meeting, conducted by the Rev. 
Homer Eaton, D.D., Presiding Elder of the Cambridge District, 
began on Tuesday evening, August nth, 1885, and closed Thursday 
morning, August 20th. The attendance was uniformly good, and 
the sermons practical and impressive.^ 

The five days denominated " The Oriental Week," beginning July 
ist and ending July 5th, 1886, were devoted to such representations, 
entertainments, and exercises as contributed information respecting 
the manners and customs of the people of the East. Mrs. John P. 
Newman, of Washington, D. C, who had accompanied her dis- 
tinguished husband in making a tour of the world, and had collected 
in Eastern countries many valuable and interesting mementoes of 
places visited by them, having admirably planned the services, tab- 
leaux and exhibitions, was highly complimented for making them so 
attractive and instructive. 

On Thursday morning, July ist, at ten o'clock, Peter Von Finkel- 
stein, a native of Jerusalem, dressed as a Mohammedan muezzin, 
cried the hour of prayer from the bell-tower of the auditorium, 
when services of praise and prayer held in a number of cottages 
inaugurated the exercises of the " Opening Day," which in part 
embraced the reading of the Holy Scriptures in English, Arabic, 
Urdu, Hindoostanee and other languages, and also the singing of 
hymns in several languages spoken by people of the Orient. The 
illustrated lectures, the costume tableaux, and the musical and 
literary entertainments were very enjoyable. The Rev. John P. 
Newman, D.D., on Sunday, July 4th, preached a sermon in the 
morning, and in the evening Peter Von Finkelstein, delivered a 

^ On Young Men's Christian Association Day, Sunday, July 26th, the speakers 
were Rev. George A. Hall. State Sec; F. S. Wetherbee, Port Henry; Charles S. 
Judd, J. B. Rogers, Rev. H. A. Starks, F. W. Ober and D. A. Budge. 

^ The sermons were preached by the Revs. C. M. Clark, Schoharie; D. R, 
Lowell, Albany; J. C. Russum, Troy; L. A. Dibble, Shelborne, Vt.; J. W. Ben- 
nett, Presiding Elder of the Burlington District; Henry Graham, D.D., Troy; Rev. 
John P. Newman, D.D., New York; E. H. Brown, Troy; C. R. Hawley, Troy^ 

H. N. Hunger, Esperance, ; M. D. Jump, Burlington, Vt. ; J. Zweifel, 

Whitehall; G. W. Brown, Fonda; H. S. Rowe, Galway; S. M. Adsit, Charlton; C. 
W. Rowley, D.D., Canajoharie; G. W. Barrett, Schenectady; J. O. Knowles, D.D., 
Boston; J. W. Hamilton, D.D., Boston; J. H. Coleman, Gloversville ; Bishop 
Wiliard F. Mallalieu, New Orleans; T. A. Griffin, Greenbush. 



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lecture on the religious aspects of the East. Many sacred hymns 
and songs were charmingly sung by Mrs, Joseph F. Knapp, of 
Brooklyn, and Miss Anna Budden, of Pithoragarh, India, read selec- 
tions of prose and poetry at the evening entertainments. On Mon- 
day evening, July 5th, there was a brilliant display of fireworks at 
Prospect Park, near the lake. 

From the First Summer School to the First Round Lake 

Meeting, 1886. 

The establishment of a Summer School at Round Lake in 1886 
deserved the success which attended it. Wisely planned to afford 
all the educational advantages which other institutions of its kind 
offered, and to excel them by opening many pleasurable paths of 
learning by new methods of instruction and illustration, the school 
readily secured the position and favor which its sagacious projectors 
desired for it. The chairs of the different departments of instruction 
were filled by experienced teachers representing some of the prin- 
cipal universities, colleges, and institutions of learning. History, 
mathematics, economics, psychology, physiology, zoology, botany, 
geology, astronomy, chemistry, elocution, drawing, painting, modeling, 
music, and other branches of knowledge, were taught. Instruction 
in the modern and dead languages included English, Anglo-Saxon, 
French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Two 
or more lectures were delivered daily by distinguished scholars, scien- 
tists, and travelers. Ideal tours through Europe, conversations in 
German and French, geological and botanical excursions, social 
entertainments, vocal and instrumental concerts, readings and recita- 
tions, microscopic exhibitions were profitably enjoyed by the large 
body of students. James H. Worman, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt Univer- 
sity, the eminent linguist and teacher, was the highly-qualified 
director of the school. The other members of the faculty were men 
and women of marked culture and ability.^ 

^ James H. Worman, Ph.D., French, German, Spanish; Edward W. Bemis, 
D.D., Springfield, Mass. (of Johns Hopkins University), history and economics; 
Prof. I. P. Bishop, Chatham High School, Chatham, N. Y., history, geology 
and chemistry; Charles J. Little, LL. D., Syracuse University, psychology ; Prof. 
A. W. Norton, Elmira, N. Y. , mathematics ; Prof. M. S., Bloodgood, Nevir 
York, art; Prof. WiUiam R. M. French, Chicago Art Institute, lectures on art; 
J. H. Hoose, Ph.D., Cortland State Normal School, teaching ; Prof. Alexander 
E. Frye, Normalville, 111., geography and oratory; Gen. T. J. Morgan, D.D., 
Providence, R. I., ped.igogy; Prof. W. E. Wilson, Rhode Island State Normal 



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The five weeks' session of the school was inaugurated on Monday 
evening, July 1 2th, by a concert conducted by Prof. J. E, Van Olinda, 
the director of the choral music. The different selections of music 
were delightfully rendered by the choir of the Second Presbyterian 
Church of Troy and by members of the Troy Choral Union. The 
school closed on Thursday, August 12th. 

In 1886 each of the fifteen days of the ninth Round Lake Sunday- 
School Assembly's session was designated by a distinctive name. 
Beginning with Tuesday, July 20th, the opening day, the others 
were the Scientific, College, Oriental, Industrial Art, Baccalaureate, 
Superintendents and Teachers', Chautauqua Literary and Scientific 
Circle, Fine Art, Children's, Missionary, Recreation (Sunday), 
Alumni, and Commencement. The hours of each day were usually 
allotted to instruction, lectures, and meetings in the following order: 
8 A. M., early morning lecture, instruction of normal, intermediate 
and primary classes; 10 a. m., devotions; 10.50 a. m., lecture; 1.45 
p. M., conference; 2.30 p. m., lecture; 4 P. M., instruction of post- 
graduate and normal classes; 5 p. m., kindergarten instruction; 7 
p. M., conference; 8 p. m., lecture. 

The Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.D., and the Rev. B. B. Loomis, who had 
so admirably conducted the assembly of 1885, were given the man- 
agement of the assembly of 1886. The board of instruction con- 
sisted of the Rev. B. B. Loomis, post-graduate class; the Rev. J. S. 
Ostrander, normal class ; the Rev. H. C. Farrar, intermediate 
class; Mrs. J. S. Ostrander, primary class; Miss Efiie M. Fraats, 
kindergarten; Miss Stella M. King, elocution ; Prof. J. E. Van 
Olinda, director of music, and Miss Clara Stearns, pianist. The 
daily lectures were on subjects of much interest and importance, and 
covered a wide field of thought, investigation, and observation.^ Be- 

School, botany, physiology, zoology; Prof. T. M. Balliett, Reading, Pa., psychology; 
Prof. J. E. Allen, Rochester, American history; A. W. Winship, Boston, lecture on 
mental training; Prof. J. B. Southworth, lecture on teaching fractions; Prof. D. A. 
Schermerhorn, Hudson, N. Y. , penmanship; Mrs. Jeanie Spring Peet, Perth Amboy, 
N. J., clay and sand modeling; Miss Eliza M. Clark, Troy, N. Y., industrial 
drawing; Miss Mary B. White, New Bedford, Mass., model school, theory and 
practice of teaching; Miss Bernice Long, Saratoga High School, penmanship; Miss 
L. A. McEntee, New York Mills, phonography and typewriting; Miss Eifie J. 
Fraats, Albany, kindergarten; Miss Ida M. Isdell, Albany, kindergarten; Miss O. 
A. Evers, Manchester, N. H., model school, mathematics; Prof. A. Pegou, Boston 
Parisian Academy of Music, vocalization ; Mme. A. Pegou, piano ; Prof. J. E. 
Van Olinda, Troy, chorus class. 

^ The lectures were: " The Regal Power of the Teacher," by Rev. James M. 
King, D.D., New York; " Native Mettle," and " Landmarks of Scott," by Wallace 



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sides the vocal music conducted by Prof. J. E. Van Olinda, the sing- 
ing of the Courtney Ladies' Quartette of New York, and of the 
Wyoming Trio, and the soiree musicale of Prof. A. and Mme. A. 
Pegou, of the Boston Parisian Academy of Music, assisted by Mme. 
H. E. Cuvellier, of Washington, D. C, and the humorous readings 
and recitations of Charles F. Underbill, of New York, delightfully 
entertained large audiences at the auditorium and Alumni Hall. On 
Wednesday, July 2Sth, the Round Lake Society of Fine Arts was 
organized by the election of the Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.D., president; 
J. H. Worman, Ph.D., vice president. Rev, B. B. Loomis, secretary 
and treasurer. 

The session of the assembly closed on Tuesday, August 3d. 

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Saratoga County 
held its third annual meeting at Round Lake on Tuesday and Wed- 
nesday, August 17th and i8th. 

Bruce, Poughkeepsie ; "The Practical Value of the Microscope," by R. H. Ward, 
M.D., Troy; "'Political Economy," by Edward W. Bemis, D.D., Springfield, 
Mass.; "The Broader Education," by Rev. J. Harwood Pattison, D.D., Rochester; 
"The Scholar for the Times," by Charles J. Little, LL D. , Syracuse University; 
"Parliamentary Practice" (four lectures), by Rev. T. B. Neely, D.D., Pottsville, 
Pa.; "Egypt, Ancient and Modern," by Hon. George S. Batcheller, Saratoga 
Springs; " Pyramid of Ghizeh," by Rev. H. A. Starks, Albany; " Industrial Educa- 
tion," by Hon. Arthur MacArthur, Washington, D. C; "Anist and Publisher," 
and " Art and Christian Worship," by Rev. Edward L. Hyde, Middleborough, 
Mass.; " Chatterton, the Boy- Poet of a Century Ago," by Rev. Albert Danker, 
Ph.D., Watertown; " Mosaic Era," by Hon. William H. Tefft, Whitehall; " West- 
minster Abbey," and "The Vellowstone," by Rev. George H. Wells, Montreal; 
"The Earth," by Prof. Alexander E. Frye, Normalville, 111.; " Effects of Alcohol 
on Nutrition," by Prof. W. E. Wilson, Providence, R. I.; "Public Speakers and 
their Methods," by Rev. Samuel McKean, D.D., Lansingburgh; "The Art of 
Reading," by Alfred Ayres; " The Missionary Outlook," by Rev. C. C. Creegan, 
Syracuse; "Aggressive Christian Work," by Rev. Robert S. MacArthur, D.D., 
New York; "The Outlook of Foreign Missions," by Rev. I. J. Lansing, Brooklyn; 
"A Knapsack Tour from New York to Central India," by Rev. T. F. 'Clark, 

; "John and Jonathan," by Rev. Robert Nourse, Washington, D. C. ; 

" Poets and Poetry," by Rev. G. W. Adams, , Pa. ; " The Lost Doctrine," 

by H. K. Carroll, LL.D., New York; "Bible Inspiration," by Prof . W.J. Shaw, 
Montreal; "Bible Astronomy in the Light of Modern Science," by R. C. Cooke, 
Whitehall; " Possibilities and Perils of Our Country," by Rev. Jahu De Witt Mil- 
ler, Philadelphia; "Court, Camp, and Church," by Rev. E. M. Mills, Ph.D., 
Elmira. 

Sermons were preached by Bishop R. S. Foster, D.D., LL.D., Boston; Gen. 
Thomas J. Morgan, D.D., Providence, R. I.; Rev. Robert Nourse; Rev. E. M. 
Mills, Ph.D.; Prof. W. I. Shaw. 



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The first Round Lake meeting, conducted by the Rev. R. H. 
Robinson, D.D., president of the association, began on Thursday 
evening, August 19th, with a service of praise and prayer. The first 




JOHN C. IDE S COTTAGE. 

sermon was preached by the Rev, H. C. Farrar, D.D., on the fol- 
lowing Friday morning. 1 From Wednesday, August 25th, to the 
close of the meeting on Sunday night, August 29th, the noted revi- 
valists, the Revs. Sam. Jones, of Cartersville, Ga., and Sam. Small, 
of Atlanta, Ga., preached with marked acceptance and power to great 
throngs of people, numbering from five to fifteen thousand. The 
singing of Prof. E, O. Excel, of Chicago, and J. Maxwell, of Cin- 

^ Discourses were afterward delivered by the Revs. D. F. Brooks, Ketcham's 
Corners; L. N. Beaudry, Montreal; L. H. King, D.D., New York; Joseph E. 
King, D.D., Fort Edward; D. Halloran, Newport, N. J.; P. N. Chase, Ro.xbury, 
N. Y. ; J. M. Edgerton, Round Lake; Samuel Meredith, Presiding Elder of Sara- 
toga District; J. J. Noe, Middlebury, Vt. ; J. G. Fallon, Schuylerville. 



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cinnati, who accompanied the famous evangelists, was exceedingly 
impressive. 

Water-works. 

In the fall of 1886 plans were considered by the association for 
conducting more water to the grounds from the unfailing springs on 
the west side of the railroad, and to effect a system of sewers for 
the inhabited part of the property. Charles D. Hammond, M. B. 
Sherman, Silas Owen, E. A. Hartshorn, and the Rev. William Griffin, 
D.D., were appointed a commission having the superintendence 
and direction of the projected improvements, which were begun in 
April, 1887. A receiving reservoir was constructed east of the sup- 
plying springs on the wooded declivity west of the railroad. Two 
storage tanks, severally having a capacity of 37,000 gallons, were 
built on the eminence west of the pump-house on the north side of 
the receiving reservoir, from which water is now pumped into the 
tanks. Connected with the main from them, lateral pipes branching 
to different points were laid to supply the cottages and other build- 
ings with water. Hydrants and drinking fountains were judiciously 
located about the grounds. The use of the water is available to a 
height of eighty feet. The work of laying the pipes and of con- 
structing the reservoir and tanks was accomplished early in June. 

The sewerage of the grounds by adequate conduits was also satis- 
factorily accomplished. The sanitary benefits of the system are the 
more appreciable, inasmuch as no sewage contaminates the water of 
the lake. 

M. B. Sherman Hose Company. 

The M. B. Sherman Hose Company, of Round Lake, was organ- 
ized June 1 8th, 1887, by the election of the following ofificers : 
Charles P. Ide, president; M. L. Barnes, vice-president; Charles D. 
Rogers, secretary; J. F. Fellows, treasurer; A. E. Batchelder, cap- 
tain; F. A. Converse, first assistant; T. N. Derby, second assistant. 
The company comprises thirty members. A fine hose carriage was 
presented to the Round Lake Association by M. B. Sherman, of 
Albany, one of the trustees of the association. Five hundred feet 
of hose were furnished the company by the association. 

Events of 1887. 

The opening day of the Round Lake Summer School of 1887, on 
Tuesday, July 12th, was auspiciously fair and pleastmt. The exer- 



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cises at the auditorium at 10.30 a. m., attracted there an audience 
numbering more than two thousand people. The Citizens' Band 
of Ballston Spa, and the Schaghticoke Glee Club, pleasurably enter- 
tained them with instrumental and vocal music. Prof. George Pren- 
tice, of Wesleyan University, read the cxxvii. Psalm, and the Rev, 
Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, of Minneapolis, Minn., offered a prayer. The 
Rev. William Griffin, D,D., the president of the association, in a 
brief address adverted to the advanced position which Round Lake 
had taken as a seat of religious, mental arfti moral culture, and the 
gratifying evidences of its prosperity and growth. The Rev. John 
P. Newman, D.D., with his brilliant elocution, delivered a thought- 
ful address on " The moral value of education." The critical and 
comprehensive view taken by Gen. L. P. di Cesnola, of " The prac- 
tical value of the museum," was highly instructive. The Hon. 
William M. Evarts made the occasion memorable by his cogent 
arguments and rational conclusions respecting " The national value 
of education." The short address by the Hon. Warner Miller, 
claimed by the enthusiastic audience, was one of pertinent observa- 
tions on popular education. I'he Hon, Levi P. Morton, who, with 
other distinguished men, was present, although likewise solicited, 
politely bowed his declination to address the urgent audience. The 
poetical contribution, entitled " Opening Day at Round Lake," by 
the Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D,, elicited much applause. 

In the afternoon, at 4 o'clock, the Grant memorials were unveiled 
in the George West Museum of Art and Archaeology by Mrs, John 
P, Newman, in the presence of a large number of persons. 

At the auditorium in the evening, short speeches were made by 
prominent men interested in the welfare of the association. After- 
ward, a display of fireworks was made on the western hill. 

The direction of the summer school of 1887, has been given to 
J. H. Worman, Ph.D., who so successfully and ably conducted the 
school of 1886. The departments of methods and practice, fine 
arts, oratory and expression, history and economics, languages, 
natural science, industrial art, the model primary and intermediate 
school and the kindergarten have accomplished and experienced 
teachers\ The four weeks' session of the school will end on August 
5th. 

^ The instructors and lecturers engaged are J. H. Hoose, Ph.D., superintendent; 
I. T. Balliett, W. N. Hailmann, D.D., H. R. Sanford, A. W. Norton, Miss Mary 
B. White, Prof. G. Guttenberg, Prof. Alex. E. Frye, W. H. Smith, school of 
methods and practice; Edward W. Bemis, Ph.D., history and economics; Prof. 



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The Round Lake Assembly of 1887, to be conducted by the Revs. 
H. C. Farrar, D.D., and B. B. Loomis, Ph.D., will begin its seven- 
teen days' session on Wednesday evening, July 20th, 1887. The 
faculty will be the Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.D., superintendent of instruc- 
tion; Rev. B. B. Loomis, Ph.D., normal class; Rev. M. D. Jump, 
post-graduate class; Rev. W. H. Groat, intermediate class; Mrs. 
Julia Terhune, primary class; Prof. J. E. Van Olinda, musical direc- 
tor, and Miss Clara Stearns, pianist. The lectures will be exceed- 
ingly edifying. 1 The session of the assembly will end on August 5th. 

The Round Lake meeting of 1887, to begin on August 13th, and 
end August 23d, will be one of the most notable in the history 
of the place. The great revivalists, the Revs. Sam. Jones and Sam. 
Small , will have charge of it and will preach daily. Prof. E. O. 
Excel will also be present during the ten days' meeting, and will 

Alex. E. Frye, geography; Prof. G. Guttenberg, I. P. Bishop, Prof. Brands, natural 
science; I. P. Bishop, chemistry and geology; R. H. Ward, M.D., microscopy; 
J. H. Worman. Ph.D., Prof. E. Von Fingerlin, T. B. Chapin, James A. Harrison, 
Ph.D., Prof. Wm. T. Thorn, Mrs. J. H. Worman, Miss N. Colbert, Miss Bertha 
Kunz, Miss Ida M. HoUis, Miss E. P. Rollins, German, French, Spanish, Italian, 
English, Anglo-Saxon, Latin and Greek languages; William R. M. French, B. R. 
Fitz, Alex. E. Frye, industrial drawing; Miss Mirian W. Dowd, charcoal drawing; 
Miss Florence E. Jinks, crayon heads; Mrs. Jeanie S. Peet, clay modeling: Homer 
A. Norris, Ernest Longley, instrumental music, piano and organ; Charles E. Tinney, 
Mrs. Otis Rockwood and Prof. Edwin C. Rowley, vocal; W. N. Hailmann, D.D., 
Miss Hailmann, kindergarten; Prof. J. W. Churchill, L. T. Powers, Prof. Frank, 
H. Fenno, oratory and .expression ; W. G. Anderson, M.D., Miss Marion F. Carter, 
physical training; Miss L. M. Morrill, book-keeping; Miss M. E. St. George, 
phonography and typewriting. 

1 The subjects of the lectures as published will be " Fits and Misfits," by Rev. 
J. W. Hamilton, D.D. ; " Ready Wit," by Wallace Bruce; " Dickens' Great Char- 
acters," by Prof. Nathan Sheppard; "Our Shadows," by J. F. Clymer; "The 
Stranger at Our Gates, "by Rev. Jahu DeWitt Miller; "Art, the Mirror of the Ages," 
by J. L. Corning. D.D.; " Manliness in Professional Life," by Prof. J. D. Phelps; 
" A Knack of Drawing," by Prof. W. M. R. French; " Egyptology," by Rev. H. 
A. Starks; " Strategy in Teaching," by Rev. Marcus D. Buell; " An Evening with 
the Pharaohs," by H. A. Starks; "Milton as an Educator," by Prof. Homer B. 
Sprague; "An Hour with the Caricaturists," by Prof. W. M. R. French; "What 
Woman has Done in Art for a Thousand Years," by J. L. Corning, D.D.; " From 
Boston to Bareilly and Back," by Rev. Wm. Butler, D.D. ; " The Coming Reli- 
gion," by Rev. Emory J. Haynes, D.D. ; " Our Boys and Girls," by Rev. Thomas 
Hanlon, D.D.; " Rome and Pompeii." by Rev. J. G. Oakley, Ph.D.; " Pluck," by 
Rev. G. W. Miller, D.D.; "Blaise Pascal," by Rev. Wm. Jackson; "Language 
as related to the Mental Growth of the Child," by Prof. J. H. Hoose; " Teaching 
by Signs," by Rev. Lewellyn Pratt, D.D.; " Evolution of Living Being," by Prof. 
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sing with that remarkable grace and power for which he is so widely 
known. 

In the history of the improvements at Round Lake those of the 
present year are more noticeable, availably useful, and significant of 
permanence than any previously made. The buildings which a num- 
ber of large-hearted men and women have unostentatiously founded 
in the interests of religion and learning are particularly noteworthy. 

Griffin Institute. 

Griffin Institute, on the east side of Simpson Avenue, northwest 
of Hotel Wentworth, is in one of the most pleasant and secluded 
parts of the wide wood. In an environment of tall, fragrant-leafed 
trees, the handsome building discloses the varied features of its 
attractive architecture. The red color of the Philadelphia pressed 
brick of the first story and of the Incasing slate of the second is in 
fine contrast with the foliage of the evergreens and the verdure of 
the north lawn. With a frontage of eighty-six feet and a depth of 
more than fifty, the building is not only outwardly imposing, but 
admirably fitted within for the uses of a summer school, for which it 
was erected. The eleven class-rooms on the first and second floors 
conveniently open by folding-doors into the spacious lecture-room, 
which is amply windowed with sky and side lights, and is well venti- 
lated. Built in the fall of 1886 and completed in the summer of 
1887, at an expense of more than $15,000, the institute is a substan- 
tial attestation of the personal interest taken in the higher education 
of young men and women by the honored giver, the Rev. William 
Griffin, D.D., of West Troy, N. Y., the present president of the 
Round Lake Association. 

George West Museum of Art and Archaeology. 

The most conspicuous of all the buildings on the grounds of the 
association is the George West Museum of Art and Archaeology. 
It is also the most prominent artificial feature in the wide prospect 
of the wooded hills and cultivated uplands bordering the beautiful 
lake, of which from the high porticoes of the commanding structure 
there is a charming view. It was given the association by its phil- 
anthropic treasurer, the Hon. George West, of Ballston Spa. In its 
erection, in the spring of 1887, he generously expended $17,000. 
The lower hall, containing statuary, antiquities, curiosities, mineral 
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gallery of paintings is of the same dimensions. The spacious rooms 
are admirably fitted for the exhibition of works of art and archaeo- 
logical treasures. At the north end of the building, adjoining the 
gallery of paintings, is a small studio for the use of. artists and their 
pupils. The Grant memorials, loaned the association by Mrs. John 
P. Newman, are contained in an elaborate gilt cabinet, which she 
formally unveiled on Tuesday afternoon, July 12th, 1887. They 
include an excellent portrait of General Grant by Theodore Pine, 
of New York, and a fine engraving of the Nation's hero by William 
Edgar Marshall. The statuary comprises plaster casts of such 
masterpieces as the " Venus de Milo," "Venus de Medici," "Apollo 
Belvidere," " Fighting Gladiator," "Psyche," "Hebe," " Niobe," 
"Jupiter," "Mercury," "Diana,'' "Ajax," and "Laocoon." The 
loan collection of paintings embraces about one hundred in number, 
ranging in value severally from $100 to $2,500.1 

The exhibition of Phoenician and Graeco- Phoenician pottery ex- 
humed at Cyprus by General L. P. di Cesnola, and the Assyro- 
Babylonian seal cylinders, ancient coin, intaglios, cameos, and other 
antiques, claim special attention. 

The large collection of pictures illustrative of historic art, loaned 
by J. Leonard Corning, D.D., of Terre Haute, Ind., is exceedingly 
interesting and instructive. The display of more than three thou- 
sand differently-shaped pieces of wood, representing not less than 
one thousand kinds, is the valuable collection of the Rev. Charles 
Devol, M.D., of Albany. The attractive cabinet of Indian relics, 
which were collected by the late Hotia W. Farrar, of Swanton, Vt., 
the brother of the Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.D., is a rare archaeological 
contribution. 

In the mineral cabinets visitors will find many geological curiosi- 
ties to interest them. The fac-similes of the great diamonds, repre- 
senting their size and shape, are those of the Regent or Pitt, belonging 
to France, which weighs i^^k carats and is valued at $625,000; the 

1 They were painted by the following well-known artists: William Sartain, 
Albert Bierstadt, A. F. Tait, Joseph Lyman, Burr H. Nicholls, Harry Eaton, G. 
H. McCord, Annie L. Morgan, George Inness, J. H. Dolph, R. W. Van Boskerck, 
A. S. Dillenbaugh, J. B. Bristol, A. Lownes, E. M. Scott, Maria Brooks, Gilbert 
Gaul, Benjamin R. Fitz, W. Deforest Bolraer, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, Arthur 
Furlong, P. P. Ryder, William J. Whittemore, W. S. Macy, Mabel Olmsted, 
Warren Sheppard, Henry A.Ferguson, E. K. Baker, A. Beecher,Jno. A. McDougall, 
J. F. Cropsey, A. L. Crook, Ernest C. Rost, Francis C. Jones, C. E. Proctor, J. 
Wells Chanipney, M. A. Ackerman, W. S. Tyler, Mrs. S. J. C. Hitt, and Miss J. 
E. Cady. 



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Kohinoor (recut), England, 125 carats, $1,000,000; the Florentine, 
Austria, 139!^ carats, $525,000; and the Orloff, Russia, 194I carats, 
$360,000, There is also a fac-simile of the largest nugget of gold 
ever found, which weighed 2,160 ounces and contained $41,883 
worth of the precious metal. Among the other curiosities are casts 
of the Moabite stone, the black obelisk or Schalmaneser, the Siloam 
tablet, the Deluge tablet, the Rosetta stone, and a great winged lion 
of Nineveh. 

On the east side of the south lawn and fronting on Peck Avenue 
is Garnsey Hall. The attractive three-story building, sixty-five feet 
wide and forty deep, was erected in the early summer of 1S87 to 
afford the young women attending the Round Lake summer schools 
pleasant and inexpensive rooms. In it are thirty-two neatly- 
furnished bedrooms and two pretty parlors. Constructed at an out- 
lay of more than $8,000, the hall obtains its name from Mrs. Caro- 
line Garnsey, of West Troy, N, Y., by whose bounty it was built. 

Kennedy Hall, recently built on the northwest corner of Whitfield 
Avenue and Ninth Street, modestly presents its graceful architecture 
to view on the south border of the stately grove. It inexpensively 
provides twenty-seven furnished dormitories and a convenient parlor 
for the accommodation of young men receiving instruction in the 
Round Lake Summer School. It is three stories high, forty feet 
wide and sixty-five deep. It was generously erected by Mrs. Nancy 
M. Kennedy, of Jonesville, N. Y., at a cost of $7,500. 



Round Lake Association. 

The change of the name of the corporation from that of the Round 
Lake Camp-Meeting Association to that of the Round Lake Associa- 
tion was first contemplated in 1884. On November 5th, that year, 
the Rev. William Griffin, D.D., the Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., and 
Charles D. Hammond were appointed a committee to apply to the 
Legislature of the State of New York for the passage of an act 
authorizing it. When, later, it was learned that the privilege could 
be granted by the County Court of Saratoga County, application was 
made to it. On July 8th, 1887, the Hon. J. S. L'Amoreaux issued 
the order to permit the corporation to take the name of the Round 
Lake Association, which order having been published, it was recorded 
July 19th, 1887. 

The president of the association, the Rev. William Griffin, D.D., 



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in his address at the annual meeting on Wednesday, May 12th, 1887, 

felicitously remarked the changes in the affairs of the association : 

" The Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association was born of a desire 

to find out and consecrate away from the busy haunts of men some 

local habitation for the pure worship of God and earnest Christian 

endeavor ; and it is believed that few places have been more signally 

owned and honored of God, than has this place during the brief 

period of its consecration as ' the mountain of the Lord's house.' 
* * * * 

" Let no one, therefore, take alarm because we have dropped from 
our title the words ' Camp-Meeting,' as though we were about to 
change our character or abandon our distinctive works. We shorten 
our name because we have broadened our work. We are no longer 
a camp-meeting association merely, we are that in all that was 
intended by it in the beginning, but we are also more. 

" Round Lake Association simple and comprehensive means the 
temple, beautiful for situation, the joy of all beholders in the place 




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of the Tabernacle and tents in the wilderness. Another advance 
step is that modification of our organic law by which we invite to the 
fellowship of our counsels, in our board of trustees, persons not 
members of the Methodist Church. Henceforth this place will be 
known, not as a ' Methodist Camp Ground,' but a ' Christian Summer 
Home,' where there is neither Methodist nor Presbyterian, Baptist nor 
Congregationalist, Episcopalian nor Dutch Reformed, but where the 
brotherhood of Christ shall dwell together in unity, provoking one 
another only by ' love and good works.' * * * * 

" Our Sunday-School Assembly, to be known hereafter in the series 
of summer sessions as ' Round Lake Assembly,' needs no introduc- 
tion at this time. It has attained its majority, and made a reputa- 
tion for itself second to none in the land, in the scope and excellence 
of its work. * * * * 

" Our Summer School, which came to many of us last year so 
unexpectedly and behaved itself so well that it completely won our 
confidence and challenged our admiration, and led us to exclaim, 
' it is good for us that it should be here, let us build for it taber- 
nacles,' has, I am happy to say, consented to stay. The wonderful 
success of the first term was a surprise and joy to everybody." 

Summer Homes. 

The advantages of Round Take as a place of summer residence 
are superior in many ways to those of other rural seats. They may 
be concisely presented in a brief summary. First, as respects the 
grounds : They are frequently, conveniently, and inexpensively 
accessible by railroad. In part, they are shaded, mostly by high- 
foliaged trees, under which cool, refreshing breezes waft the salu- 
brious fragrance of the pines and other evergreens. They are evenly 
graded, and no depressions harbor stagnant water. The soil is 
gravelly, and the paths and avenues are never muddy after rainfalls, 
A well-devised system of sewers effects the removal of refuse, 
liquids, and deleterious matter. In every part of the sunny-aisled 
wood cultivated flowers bloom with color as brilliant as those grow- 
ing in unshaded places. 

The tameness of the unmolested squirrels, which partake of food 
from the open hands of friendly givers, and the undisturbed pres- 
ence of many warbling birds, always delight sojourners and visitors. 

The wide expanse of the lake affords all the pleasures of yachting 
and rowing. Bass and other fish in its waters invite angling. 



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Drives to Saratoga Lake, five miles away, and along shady, brook- 
margined country roads, are also enjoyable. 

The mineral water of Round Lake has the same properties as that 
of the famous Congress fountain of Saratoga Springs. The limpid 
water of the constantly-flowing springs in the southwestern part of 
the grounds, supplied the cottages and drinking fountains, is as 
much appreciated for its refreshing coolness as it is for its exceed- 
ing purity and wholesomeness. 

The expense of acquiring property at Round Lake is a matter of 
special consideration. The price of eligible building lots within or 
without the grove is low, and the cost of the erection of a cottage is 
limited by the purpose of the builder. Persons seeking the enjoy- 
ment of shade and seclusion can purchase sites in different parts of 
the spacious wood; those desiring far-reaching prospects, a view of 
the placid lake, and a wide survey of the cloud-featured sky, can buy 
lots in the open and elevated parts of the extensive grounds. Those 
who may wish to spend a summer or a vacation at Round Lake can, 
by timely application, obtain the use of a cottage at a nominal rent, 
or secure first-class accommodations at Hotel Wentworth, or cozy 
rooms at the different boarding-houses at moderate rates. 

At Round Lake there are no imperative dictations of fashion. A 
woman's plain toilet does not subject her to disagreeable criticism, 
and children may enjoy the freedom of the healthful retreat in 
simple, home-worn clothing. The infrequency of horses and vehicles, 
and the absence of cats and dogs on the grounds, greatly lessen the 
watchful care of small children at play out-doors. 



ROUND LAKE. ,7.3 

ROUND LAKE. 

BY REV. BISHOP EDMUND S. JANES, NEW YORK, 1S75. 

O God! our temple thou hast made. 

Its floor of earth by Thee was laid; 
Its leafy roof and pillars grand 

Are all the work of Thy own hand. 

Its ornaments of hill and lake 

Are such as none but Thou couldst make; 
Its living fountain, bright and free, 

Could only have its source in Thee. 

The beauties of'our sacred shrine 

Declare its Architect divine; 
And]when Thy presence. Lord, is given. 

It is to us the gate of Heav'n. 

Then let Thy saving pow'r be known, 

And here Thy richest grace be shown; 
May thousands here be born to God 

And]|thousands washed in Jesus' blood. 



ROUND LAKE. 

BY JOHN C. BLAIR. 

(1878.) 

I love its grand majestic wood, 

Its dusky twilight dimness; 
The reverential thought it brings, 

Its awe-inspiring stillness; 
Dear to my heart its swaying trees, 

Whose music low and tender 
Is wafted up to God above, 

Free from cathedral splendor. 

No temple reared by human hands, 

The wealth of art revealing, 
Could e'er produce such holy thought, 

Such calm and peaceful feeling; 
No costly organ peal elate. 

Or set the pulses bounding. 
Like olden anthem, sweet and clear, 

Through leafy aisles resounding. 

The silvery moon with radiant light 
Her nightly vigils keeping, 

Reveals her lovely counterpart 
In mirrored beauty sleeping; 



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And lingers like a maiden coy 

O'er meadow brook-side kneeling, 
Who finds the water 'neath her gaze 

Her own sweet self revealing. 

The golden glory of the sun, 

The western sky adorning. 
The east aglow with rosy light, 

The herald of the morning; 
The twilight hour of pensive thought, 

The soul from sin alluring, 
All tend to make this lovely spot 

An Jiden most enduring. 

From Memory's page we oft recall 

The dear old-fashioned meetings, 
' While tenting on the old camp ground,* 

Rich with its cordial greetings, 
The melody of singing birds 

With sacred music blending. 
The solemn voice beneath the trees 

In holy prayer ascending. 

We love its quiet forest lake, 

A gem in emerald setting, 
Its crystal surface calm and still, 

The heavens above reflecting, 
As if from out yon starry dome 

A jewel bright in falling 
Had lent new beauty to the scene. 

An added charm installing. 

HYMNS. 

Composed for and sung during the first Fraternal Meeting, July, 1874, 
THE DAY OF DAYS. 

BY REV. F. BOTTOME, D.D. 

1. Praise ye the Lord ! O sing aloud ! 

The strong Redeemer's name declare, 
And thankful lift your incense-cloud 
In blended gift of praise and prayer. 

2. His own right arm hath safely led 

Our scatter'd tribes through all the way ; 
And lo, with joyful feet we tread 

The courts His hands have raised, to-day. 

3. One God, one faith, one name we own, 

One family in Him we meet ; 
His love and fellowship make known 
In sweet communion at His feet. 



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4. Our fathers' God ! with one desire. 

Our hands upraised to Thee behold ! 
We wait the pentecostal fire 

That marked our sires in days of old. 

5. So shall this forest-temple ring, 

And yon blue dome resound Thy praise ; 
And this, while Thy great name we sing, 
Shall be to us the day of days. 



CHRISTIAN GREETING. 

BY MRS. JOSEPH HILLMAN. 

1. From many a Christian nation, 

And many a distant clime; 
From India's sunny region, 

They come with love divine. 
From snow-clad Rocky Mountains, 

And islands of the sea. 
From Ganges' sacred river, 

To worship only Thee. 

2. The wondrous star of Bethlehem 

Shines with a lustre clear, 
The dew of Hermon resting 

Like holy incense here. 
Jesus! the place is sacred ! 

We here tread holy ground ; 
Lift high the blood-stained banner, 

With glorious victory crowned ! 

3. Come, then — we bid you welcome— 

Ye sacramental host ; 
Salvation is our watchword, 

In God we put our trust. 
As North and South together, 

With East and West we meet. 
The star of hope shines brightly, 

Fraternally we greet. 

4. We bathe in Judah's fountain — 

A balm for all our woes; 
The blood of Christ it cleanseth — 

For all the world it flows. 
The spicy gales of Calvary 

Bring healing by the way; 
" Salvation ! O salvation ! " 

Proclaim the joyful day. 



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DEVOTION. 

BY E. A. PECK. 

1. O Thou, the everliving God, 

Help us Thy praise to sing ; 
Then shall these consecrated groves 
With hallelujahs ring. 

Cho. : O praise the Lord, with one accord, 

Exhalt His name, His love proclaim ; 
His promise sure, and will endure, 
Forever more — forever more. 

2. We thank Thee for this glorious day, 

From North and South we come ; 
From East and West we hear the cry. 
God's people shall be one. 

3. Baptize us with Thy Spirit, Lord ; 

O send the sacred fire. 
Then shall we speak with other tongues 
If only God inspire. 



CHRISTIAN UNITY. 

BY REV. A. C. ROSE, 

1. God of our fathers, from Thy throne, 

Look down and bless us while we pray ! 
We join in praising Thee as one, 
Within this hallowed grove today. 

2. Are we not all the sons of God ? 

And heirs alike of heavenly love ? 
Washed by the same all-cleansing blood. 
And traveling to one home above ? 

3. Baptize us, then, into one mind — 

The mind, O Christ, which is in Thee : 
And into sweetest union bind 

Our hearts, in love and sympathy. 

4. Thus while we wait together here, 

Beneath this sacred leafy shade, 
We all shall feel Thy presence near 
And see Thy saving power displayed. 

5. Grant this, and when we hence remove. 

Our hearts shall still united be 
Till we shall meet again above, 
And endless praises give to Thee. 



ROUND LAKE. 

OPENING DAY AT ROUND LAKE. 

(July i2th, 1887.) 

By Joseph E. King, D.D. 

To him his meed of glory and of bliss — 

'Twas Joseph Hillman who began all this. 

The Projector he, Columbus of Round Lake, 

His just renown let none presume to take. 

The Nations came to worship in our grove. 

And North and South joined in fraternal love. 

What giants thundered and what seraphs blazed, 

Heaven oft rejoiced while hell stood back amazed! 

In aftertime, when storm-clouds reared their crest, 

A bow of promise shone from out the West. 

While many hands brought each their willing gift, 

To lay the spectre, and our debt to lift, 

One princely hand paid more than all the rest. 

Thus came deliverance from the bounteous West. 

And now, to crown this largeness of the heart, 

Behold arise yon Museum of Art! 

Fair and complete and worthy of the giver, 

A thing of beauty and a joy forever. 

Than William Griffin lives no worthier name 

To grace the bulwarks of our rising fame, 

A sacred tryst for better or for worse 

Commands his prayers, his counsels and his purse, 

To endow the Assembly and our Summer Schools, 

Fair structures rise — his ardor never cools. 

W^hile others dreamed, his bent it was to act. 

He waved his wand, and lo, the accomplished fact ! 

Last year a promise, but to-day the fruit, 

We hail with joy the " Griffin " Institute. 

And not content, to further noble ends 

He gives himself and implicates his friends. 

Tsvo stately halls, the Institute's annex. 

Fair contributions from the gentler sex, 

" Garnsey" and " Kennedy," inscribe on either portal, 

Thus link to youth and surely make immortal . 

Long may these walls wisdom enforce and truth 

To widening circles of our goodly youth; 

While lake and wood, and towers and bending skies 

Make this fair spot the scholar's Paradise! 



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78 ROUND LAKE. 

OFFICERS 

OF 

THE ROUND LAKE CAMP-MEETING ASSOCIATION. 

Presidents. 

Joseph Hillman from May j, 1868, to April 27, 1881. 

Rev. Rodman H. Robinson, D.D from April 27, 1881. to October 19, 1886. 

Rev. William Griffin, D.D from November 3, 1886, to July 19, 1887. 

Vice - Pre side n is . 

Charles W. Pierce from May 4, 1868, to March 30, 1870. 

Prof. H. A. Wilson from March 30, 1870, to May 5, 1886, 

Pirsi Vice-President. 

Prof. H. A. Wilson from May 5, 1886, to July 19, 1887. 

Second Vice-Presidents. 

Rev. William Griffin, D D from July 24, 1885, to November 3, 18S6. 

Charles D. Hammond from November 3, 1886, to July 19, 1887. 

Secretaries. 

E. O. Rowland from May 4, 1868, to March 29, 1871. 

Phineas S Pettit .from March 29, 1871, to March 25, 1874. 

Warren S. Kelley from March 25. 1874, to May 9, 1881. 

Rev. B. B. Loomis from May 9, 1881, to May 3, 1882. 

Warren S. Kelley from May 3, 1882, to July 19. 1887. 

Treasurers. 

George Bristol from May 4, 1868, to , 1868 

E. A- Hartshorn from December 16, 1868, to February 26, 1878 

George W. Horton from February 26, 1878, to April 30, 1879 

Rev. Samuel McKean, D.D from April 30. 1879, to April 27, 1S81 

Hon. George West from April 27, 1881, to July 19. 1887 

Trustees. 
1868-9. 

Pi7-st Class : Hazen W. Bennett, George Bristol, James H. Earl, E. O. How- 
land, Robert N. Newton, Ephraim D. Waldron, Levi Weed, M.D., elected May 4th, 
1868. 

Rev. Jesse T. Peck, D.D., elected to fill place of James H. Earl, December i6th, 

1868. 

Second Class : George L. Clark, Robert Coburn, Roscius R. Kennedy, Samuel 

Martin, William H. McEchron, Phineas S. Pettit, Jesse Wilson, elected May 4th, 
1868. 

Third Class ; William Dalton, Joseph Hillman, F. D. Hodgeman, Gardner How- 
land, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Charles W. Pierce, H. A. Wilson, elected May 
4th, 1868. 

Rev. William Griffin, D.D., elected to fill place of William Dalton, December 
i6th, 1868. 



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First Class : Hazen W. Bennett, E. A. Hartshorn, E. O. Howland, Robert N. 
Newton, Rev. Jesse T. Peck, D.D., Ephraim D. Waldron, George West, elected 
March 31st, 1869. 

Second Class : George L. Clark, Robert Coburn, Roscius R. Kennedy, Samuel 
Martin, William H. McEchron, Phineas S. Pettit, Jesse Wilson, elected May 4th, 
1868. 

Third Class : Joseph Hillman, F. D. Hodgeman, Gardner Howland, Rev. Joseph 
E. King, D.D., Charles W. Pierce, H. A. Wilson, elected May 4th, 1868. Rev. 
William Griffin, D.D., elected December i6th, 1868. 

1870-I. 

First Class : Hazen W. Bennett, E. A. Hartshorn, E. O. Howland, Robert N. 
Newton, Rev. Jesse T. Peck, D.D., Ephraim D. Waldron, George West, elected 
March 31st, i86g. 

Second Class : Robert Coburn, Samuel E. Howe, Samuel Martin, William H. 
McEchron, Phineas S. Pettit, Rev. Ensign Stover, Jesse Wilson, elected June 21st, 
1870. 

Third Class : Joseph Hillman, T. D. Hodgeman, Gardner Howland, Rev. Joseph 
E. King, D.D., Charles W. Pierce, H. A. Wilson, elected May 4th, i868; Rev, 
William Griffin, D.D.. elected December i6th, 1868. 

1871-2. 

First Class : Hazen W. Bennett, E. A. Hartshorn, E. O. Howland, Robert N. 
Newton, Rev. Jesse T. Peck, D.D., Ephraim D, Waldron, George West, elected 
March 31st, 1869. 

Second Class : Robert Coburn, Samuel E. Howe, Samuel Martin, William H. 
McEchron, Phineas S. Pettit, Rev. Ensign Stover, Jesse Wilson, elected June 21st, 
1870. 

John W. Osborn elected to fill place of Rev. Ensign Stover, July 5th, 1871. 

Third Class: Rev. William Griffin, D.D., Joseph Hillman, F. D. Hodgeman, 
Gardner Howland, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Jacob Travis, H. A. Wilson, 
elected March 29th, 1871. 

1872-3. 

First Class: Hazen W. Bennett, S. M. Birch, E. A. Hartshorn, E. O. Howland, 
Robert N. Newton, William Shepherd, Ephraim D. Waldron, elected April loth, 
1872. 

Charles H. Smith, M.D.', elected to fill place of S. M. Birch, July, 17th, 1872. 

Second Class: Robert Coburn, Samuel E. Howe, Samuel Martin, William H. 
McEchron, Phineas S. Pettit, Jesse Wilson, elected June 21st, 1870; John W. 
Osborn, July 5th, 1871. 

Third Class: Rev. William Griffin, D.D., Joseph Hillman, F. D. Hodgeman, 
Gardner Howland, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Jacob Travis, H. A. Wilson, 
elected March 29th, 1S71. 



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1873-4. 
First Class: Hazen W. Bennett, E. A. Hartshorn, E. O. Howland, Robert N. 
Newton, William Shepherd, Ephraim D. Waldron, elected April loth, 1872. 
George West elected to fill place of C. H. Smith, M.D., March 26th. 1873. 
Second Class: Warren S. Kelley, Samuel Martin, Phineas S. Pettit, John W. 
Osborn, William Renne, E. Robinson, Jesse Wilson, elected March 26th. 1873. 

Third Class: Rev. William Griffin, D.D., Joseph Hillman, F. D. Hodgeman, 
Gardner Howland, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Jacob Travis, H. A. Wilson, 
elected March 29th, 1871. 

1874-5- 

First Class: Hazen W. Bennett, E. A. Hartshorn, E. O. Howland, Robert N. 
Newton, William Shepherd, Ephraim D. Waldron, elected April loth, 1872; George 
West, March 26th, 1873. 

Rev. Joseph E. King elected in place of William Shepherd, June 3d, 1874. 

Second Class: Warren S. Kelley, Samuel Martin, Phineas S. Pettit, John W. 
Osborn, Jesse Wilson, elected March 26th, 1873; George W. Hoxsie elected in 
place of E. Robinson, March 25th, 1874. 

John D. Rogers elected in place of William Renne, March 25th, 1874; Rev. 
Bernice D. Ames elected in place of John D. Rogers, June 3d, 1874. 

Third Class: Rev. Bernice D. Ames, George B. Cluett, Rev. William Griffin, 
D.D., Joseph Hillman, Rev. Joseph E. King, Jacob Travis, H. A. Wilson, elected 
March 25th, 1874. 

William Shepherd, elected in place of Rev. Bernice D. Ames, June 3d, 1874; 
John D. Rogers, elected in place of Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D.. June 3d, 1874. 

1875-6. 

First Class: Hazen W. Bennett, Thomas Farwell, E. A. Hartshorn, Daniel 
Hays. Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Robert N. Newton, George West, elected 
April 28th, 1875. 

Second Class: Warren S. Kelley, Samuel Martin, Phineas S. Pettit, John W. 
Osborn, Jesse Wilson, elected March 26th, 1873; George W. Hoxsie, March 25th, 
1874; Rev. Bernice D, Ames, June 3d, 1874. 

Third Class: George B. Cluett, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., Joseph Hillman, 
Jacob Travis, H. A. Wilson, elected March 25th, 1874; John D. Rogers and 
William Shepherd, elected June 3d, 1S74. 

1876-7. 

First Class: Hazen W. Bennett, Thomas Farwell, E. A. Hartshorn, Daniel Hays, 
Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Robert N. Newton, George West, elected April 28th, 

1875- 

Second Class : George W. Horton, Warren S. Kelley, Abram Le Gallez, John 
W. Osborn, Phineas S. Pettit, Rev. Sanford Washburn, Jesse Wilson, elected April, 
26th, 1876. 

Third Class : George B. Cluett, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., Joseph Hillman, 
Jacob Travis, H. A. Wilson, elected March 25th, I874; John D. Rogers and Will- 
iam Shepherd elected June 3d, 1874. , 

Edmund Cluett elected in place of George B. Cluett, June 28th, 1876. 



ROUND LAKE. »I 

1877-8. 

First Class : Hazen W. Bennett, Thomas Farwell, E. A. Hartshorn, Daniel Hays, 
Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Robert N. Newton, George West, elected April 28th, 
1875. 

Daniel Klock, jr., elected in place of Daniel Hays; George G. Saxe in place of E. 
A. Hartshorn, and Harvey Wendell in place of Hazen W. Bennett, February 26th, 
1878. 

Second Class : George W. Horton, Warren S. Kelley, Abram Le Gallez, John 
W. Osborn, Phineas S. Pettit, Rev. Sanford Washburn, Jesse Wilson, elected April 
26th, 1876. 

Rev. R. H. Robinson elected in place of Rev. Sanford Washburn, February 26th, 
1878. 

Third Class : Oliver Boutwell, Edmund Cluett, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., 
Joseph Hillman, John D. Rogers, Jacob Travis, H. A. Wilson, elected April 25th, 
1877. 

Perrin W. Converse elected in place of Edmund Cluett, and Silas Owen in place 
of Jacob Travis, February 26th, 1878. 

1878-9. 

First Class : Thomas Farwell, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Daniel Klock, jr., 
Robert N. Newton, George G. Saxe, Harvey Wendell, George West, elected April 
24th, 1878. 

Second Class : George W. Horton, Warren S. Kelley, Abram Le Gallez, John 
W. Osborn, Phineas S. Pettit, Jesse Wilson, elected April 26th, 1876; Rev. R. H. 
Robinson elected February 26th, 187S. 

Samuel F. Harris elected in place of Jesse Wilson April 24th, 1878. 

T/iird Class: Oliver Boutwell, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., Joseph Hillman, 
John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected April 25th, 1877; Perrin W. Converse and 
Silas Owen elected February 26th, 1878. 

N. S. Vedder elected in place of Rev. William Griffin, D.D., September 5th, 
1878. 

1879-80. 

First Class: Thomas Farwell, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Daniel Klock, jr.,. 
Robert N. Newton, George G. Saxe, Harvey Wendell, George West, elected April 
24th, 1878. 

Second Class : Abram Le Gallez, Samuel F. Harris, George W. Horton, Warren 
S. Kelley, Henry Kelly, Phineas S. Pettit, Rev. R. H. Robinson, elected April 
30th, 1879. 

Tkird Class: Oliver Boutwell, Joseph Hillman, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, 
elected April 25th, 1S77; Perrin W. Converse and Silas Owen elected February 26th, 
1878; N. S. Vedder elected September 5th, 1878. 

1880-I. 

First Class: Thomas Farwell, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Daniel Klock, jr., 
Robert N. Newton, George G. Saxe, Harvey Wendell, George West, elected April 
24th, 1S78. 

Rev. H. C. Farrar elected in place of George G. Saxe, and Charles D. Hammond 
in place of Daniel Klock, jr., March 8th, 1S81. 



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Second Class : Abram Le Gallez, Samuel F. Harris, George W. Horton, Warren 
S. Kelley, Henry Kelly, Phineas S. Pettit, Rev. R. H. Robinson, elected April 30th, 
1879. 

Third Class : Oliver Boutwell, Perrin W. Converse, Rev. Joel W. Eaton, Joseph 
Hillman, Silas Owen, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected April 2Sth, 1S80. 

Rev. William Griffin, D.D., elected in place of Joel W. Eaton, March 8th, 1881. 



First Class : Edmund Cluett, James W. Eaton, Edmund C. Edmonds, Rev. 
H. C. Farrar, Charles D. Hammond, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., George West, 
elected April 27th, 1881. 

Second Class : Abram Le Gallez, Samuel F. Harris, George W. Horton, Warren 
S. Kelley, Henry Kelly, Phineas S. Pettit, Rev. R. H. Robinson, elected April 30th, 
1879. 

Third Class : Oliver Boutwell, Perrin W. Converse, Joseph Hillman, Silas Owen, 
John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected April 2.8th, 1880; Rev. William Griffin, 
D.D., elected March 8th, r88i. 

1882-3. 

Tirst Class : Edmund Cluett, James W. Eaton, Edmund C. Edmonds, Rev. H. 
C Farrar, Charles D. Hammond, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., George West, elected 
April 27th, 1 88 1. 

Second Class : Rev. Cabot M. Clark, Benjamin Cooper, Charles Cooper, Abram 
Le Gallez, Warren S. Kelley, Henry Kelly, R. H. Robinson, elected May 3d, 
1882. 

Third Class : Oliver Boutwell, Perrin W. Converse, Joseph Hillman, Silas 
Owen, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected April 28th, 1880; Rev. William 
Griffin, D.D., elected March 8th, 188 1. 

1883-4. 

First Class : Edmund Cluett, James W. Eaton, Edmund C. Edmonds, Rev. H. 
C. Farrar, Charles D. Hammond, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., George West, 
elected April 27th, 1881. 

Second Class : Rev. Cabot M. Clark, Benjamin Cooper, Charles Cooper, Abram 
Le Gallez, Warren S. Kelley, Henry Kelly, R. H. Robinson, elected May 3d, 1882. 

Third Class : Oliver Boutwell, Perrin W. Converse, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., 
Joseph Hillman, Silas Owen, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected May 2d, 
1883. 

1884-5. 

First Class : Edmund C. Edmonds, Rev. H. C. Farrar, Charles D. Hammond, 
Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Robert N. Newton, Rev. R. H. Robinson, George 
West, elected May 7th, 1884. 

Second Class : Rev. Cabot M. Clark, Benjamin Cooper, Charles Cooper, Abram 
Le Gallez, Warren S. Kelley, Henry Kelly, R. H. Robinson, elected May 3d, 1882. 

Rev. S. V. Leech, D. D., elected in place of Abram Le Gallez, and E. A. Harts- 
horn in place of Rev. R. H. Robinson, May 7th, 1884. 

Third Class: Oliver Boutwell, Perrin W. Converse, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., 
Joseph Hillman, Silas Owen, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected May 2d, 



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1885-6. 

First Class : Edmund C. Edmonds, Rev. H. C. Farrar, Charles D. Hammond, 
Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Robert N. Newton, Rev. R. H. Robinson, George 
West, elected May 7th, 1884. 

Second Class : Rev. Cabot M. Clark, J. W. A. Cluett, Benjamin Cooper, Charles 
Cooper. E. A. Hartshorn, Warren S. Kelley, Rev. Andrew McGilton, elected May 
6th, 1885. 

Third Cliss : Oliver Boutwell, Perrin W. Converse, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., 
Joseph Hillman, Silas Owen, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected May 2d, 
1883, 

1886-7. 

First Class : Edmund C. Edmonds, Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.D., Charles D. Ham- 
mond, Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., Robert A. Newton, Rev. R. H. Robinson, 
George West, elected May 7th, 1884. 

Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., elected in place of Rev. R. H. Robinson, D.D., 
November 3d, 1886. 

Second Class : Rev. Cabot M. Clark, J. W. A. Cluett, Benjamin Cooper, Charles 
Cooper, E. A. Hartshorn, Warren S. Kelley, Rev. Andrew McGilton, elected May 
6th, 1885. 

Third Class : Oliver Boutwell, Perrin W. Converse, Rev. VViiHam Griffin, D.D., 
Joseph Hillman, Silas Owen, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected May 5th, 
1886. 

1887— to July 19th. 

First Class : Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.D., Charles D. Hammond, Rev. Joseph E. 
King, D.D.. Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., Robert N. Newton, M. B. Sherman, 
George West, elected May nth, 1887. 

Second Class : Rev. Cabot M. Clark, J. W. A. Cluett, Benjamin Cooper, Charles 
Cooper, E. A. Hartshorn, Warren S. Kelley, Rev. Andrew McGilton, elected May 
6th. 1885. 

Thi/-d Class : Oliver Boutwell. Perrin W. Converse, Rev. William Griffin, D.D., 
Joseph Hillman, Silas Owen, John D. Rogers, H. A. Wilson, elected May 5th, 
1886. 



Superintendents. 

Lewis Gage from 1868 to April i, 1874. 

John D. Rogers from April i, 1874 to July 19, 1887. 



84 ROUND LAKE. 

OFFICERS 

OF 

THE ROUND LAKE ASSOCIATION, 

From July 19th, 1887, to present time. 

Rev. William Griffin, D.D., West Troy, N. Y President. 

Prof. H. A Wilson, Saratoga Springs, N. Y First Vice-President. 

Charles D. Hammond, Albany, N. Y Second Vice-President. 

Warren S. Kelley, Albany, N. Y Secretary. 

Hon. George West, Ballston Spa Treasurer. 

Trustees. 

JFivs t Clci ss. 

Rev. H. C. Farrar, D.D West Troy, N. Y. 

Charles D. Hammond Albany, N. Y. 

Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D Fort Edward, N. Y. 

Rev. John P. Newman, D.D Washington, D. C. 

Robert N. Newton Albany, N. Y. 

M. B. Sherman Albany, N. Y. 

Hon. George West Ballston Spa, N. Y. 

Second Class. 

Rev. Cabot M. Clark Clifton Park. N. Y. 

J. W. A. Cluett Troy, N. Y. 

Benjamin Cooper Troy, N. Y* 

Charles Cooper Bennington, Vt. 

E. A. Hartshorn Troy, N. Y. 

Warren S. Kelley Albany, N. Y. 

Rev. Andrew McGilton West Troy, N. Y. 

Third Class. 

Oliver Boutwell Troy, N Y. 

Perrin W. Converse Troy, N. Y. 

Rev. William Griffin, D.D West Troy, N. Y. 

Joseph Hillman Troy, N. Y. 

Silas Owen Cohoes, N. Y. 

John D. Rogers Round Lake, N. Y. 

H . A. Wilson Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 

Trustees, ex-officio^. 

Rev. J. W. Bennett Brandon, Vt. 

Rev. Joel W. Eaton, D.D Glens' Falls, N. Y. 

Rev. D. W. Gates Albany, N. Y. 

Rev. A. D. Heaxt Plattsburgh, N. Y. 

Rev. Samuel McKean, D.D Lansingburgh, N. Y. 

Rev. Samuel Meredith Green Island, N. Y. 

Superintendent. 
John D. Rogers Round Lake, N. Y. 

1 The presiding elders of the Troy Conference are ex-ojfficio members of the board of trustees. 



ROUND LAKE. 



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"Who havE attendEd the SumuiEr Sdinal at Round 
LakE should finish at thE 



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for hErE thsy can complEtE StEnography^ Typs- 
■writing and TElEgraphy; or takE thE most thorough 
Business Course, Graduates from this Institution 



have UEVEr hEforE heen in so great demand, 

For catalogue containing full informationj 
addross 

CQGCgr^BAr^Y ^ Shields^ 

No, 13 Third Street, 

TROY, N. Y. 



Respecting the merits of our school ta^e rEfEr to 
nr, J, H, Afformauj Director of the Round Lake 
Summer School, 



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ROUND LAKE. 



FORT f EDiA£MRO 




QDlle0iate l95l:itul:e 

Rebuilt and refurnished in 1881, at a cost of $72,000, is now perhaps the hand- 
somest and best appointed Boarding Seminary ill the state. Average enrollments 
for past five years, 185 per term, of whom 100 have been boarding students. 

Six Courses of Study are provided — College preparatory, Commercial, Scientific,^ 
Latin Scientific, Classical and Eclectic. 

Graduates of High Schools and other advanced students are cordially welcomed 
to our Senior Classes, and find a year at our institute to be both greatly enjoyable 
and profitable. 

The bible and evangelical religion are not apologized for, but endorsed and 
recommended. The three evening religious meetings of each week of the school 
year are designed to be revival meetings, and God greatly blesses these regular 
means of grace. 

Four live Literary Societies — two of gentlemen and two of ladies — willi o.r con- 
stant morning chapel readings and recitations and our frequent literary and 
oratorical contests serve powerfully to awaken and develop the speaking and writ- 
ing fluently of our students. 

Music, Painting and Modern Languages also receive conspicuous attention. 

For charges and full information, see new catalogue. For special rates to 
preachers and to two or more students from same family, please correspond with 



the Principal, 



JOS. E. KING, D. D., 



FORT EDWARD. N. Y. 



ROUND LAKE. 87 

THE 



m^GRBZnYp^ 



SARATOGA eOaNTY, 
iVEECHANICVILLK, N. Y. 



Healthful Location, 

Thorough Instruction, 

Three Courses of Study, 

College Preparatory, 
Latin Scientific, Scientific. 



J^or Circulars or Catalogues apply to 



PRINCIPAL. 



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ROUND LAKE. 




For Grandeur, Beauty and Healthfulness, no Region in tne World 

COMPARES WITH 

Lake George and the Adirondack Mountains, 

ELIZABETHTOWN, KEENE VALLEY, LAKE PLACID, LOON, 
SARANAC, ST, REGIS, CHATEAUGAY LAKES, ETC. 



THE ONLY DIRECT LINE TO THIS PARADISE OF THE HEALTH AND 
PLEASURE SEEKER IS VIA 

T5e Detoafe \ f&im \ \ 

"THE FAVORITE TOURISTS" ROUTE" 

To SARATOGA, ROUND LAKE, 

LAKE CHAMPLAIN, AUSABLE CHASM, 

SHARON SPRINGS, COOPERSTOWN, 

AND THE CELEBRATED 
BETWEEN 

CARBONDALE and HONESDALE, PA. 



The Shortest and Most Comfortable Route between 

Hew York & Montreal, ^dktween Albany, Elmira, Corning and the Oil Regions. 

Send 5-cent Stamp for Hotel and Boarding House List, Guide, Maps, etc. 

H. G. YOUNG, Gen' I Manager. J. W. BUR DICK, Gen' I Passenger Agent 

ALBANY, N . Y. 



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IRA H. CARPENTER. 



C. H. BALL. 



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Ti^o^ pottei^i] X^^eWei^ pipe Go. 






ESTABLISHED 1809. 



Carpenter & Ball, 

(Successors to WALTER J. SEYMOUR), 

Salt Slazed Vitrifid fewer 



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N. B. — The Company has stapplied 
the Rouinci Lake Association v^^ith 
Se^wer Pipe. 



ROUND LAKE. gi 

J. M. WARREN & CO. 

Hardware, Iron, Nails. 



J M. W. Old Process Roofing Tin. 

Builders' Hardware and Tools. 
Lawn Mowers, Rakes and Settees. 

Garden Hose and Reels. 

Window and Door Screens. 

TROY, N. Y. 



ALSO PROPRIETORS OF 



The Troii Stamping Works 

lousi iFHiisHiig mmB. 

Our stock comprises the largest and most complete assortment 
(including all the latest novelties in house-keeping utensils) to be 
fouiid anywhere, such as 

Tifl, Copper, Brass, 
Eitiarnelled, Wooden, billow and other Wares, 

OF OUR OWN AND OTHER MANUFACTURE. 

Goods all first=class and at reasonable prices. 
An inspection of our stock is invited. 

245 c«3 a4:"Z OEtlX^ESPt ST., 

TROY, N. Y. 



92 ROUND LAKE. 



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A CHOICE COLLECTION OF REVIVAL HYMNS AND 
TUNES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED 

— BY — 
AUTHOR OK 

"Sundaij School Hiimns and Reyiyal Chorusos," 

CLvOTH, T5c. 

"This, we think, is one of the best selections of revival melodies we liave 
met with." — The Guide to Holiness. 

"It is among the very best of its kind " — The Christian Advocate. 

SOLD BY 

PHILLIPS <S6 HUNT, 

M. B. BOOK CONCERN, 

805 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. 



HOW CAN I BE SAVED ? 

BY 

CI^OXH, -40c, 

THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS DESIGNED FOR THOSE WHO DESIRE TO KNOW 

HOW THEY CAN BE SAVED, HOW THEY MAY BE ASSURED 

OF A PRESENT SALVATION, AND HOW THEY 

MAY BE KEPT THEREIN. 

"It will be of great service to seekers for the truth and to those engaged in 
directing others in the search." — Kiv. E. Went^vorih, D. D. 

SOLD BY 

Phillips ^ l7LtNii, 

M. E. BOOK CONCERN, 

805 B1|0ADW>Y, t^EW York, f^ Y. 



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ROUND LAKE. 93 



ffohn K WhompAon, Sond Sc Bo.. 



ESTABLISHED 1737, 



WH0LESALE DEAIiERS 



IN 



PuBE Linseed Oil, Pure Lead, 

IliJED Paints, Colors, 

Varnishes, Qlass, 

P^INT 



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-A. :B''XJIL.L ^A^SSOE-TliwdEIITT OIF" 

Pure Drugs and Medicines. 

159, 161, 163 RIVER STREET, 

JROf, N. Y. 



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CHAT LEY. 



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CROWN COLLARS 



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MARK. 

MONARCH 




MONARCH 



SHIRTS, 



ARE THE BEST DF ALL, 



GEO. B. CLUETT, BRO. & CO., 



X H O Y. Ki . Y, 






ROUND LAKE. 



95 



Wheeleii \ Wifeon 




SEWING AND BUTTON-HOLE 



TV^T^CHINES. 



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The only full line of machines for all kinds of family sewing and all 
grades of manufacturing that will sew any stitchable material, from the finest 
gauze to the heaviest leather. 

A specialty made of supplying Factories with Shafting, Power Transmitters, 
Pulleys, Belting, Oil, Needles, Sewing Machine parts and special attachments; 
in fact, we supply anything pertaining to a Sewing Machine. See our new 
family and manufacturing machines before you purchase. It will pay you. 

If you want anything pertaining to a Machine call on us. 






Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. 



SALESROOMS : 



454 & 456 FULTON ST., TROY. 



AGENTS WANTED WHERE NOT REPRESENTED. 



96 



ROUND LAKE. 



ESTABLISHED 1877. 

BDARD ilNn RDDMS BY THE DAY DRIATEEK 
RT MDEERilTE PRICES, 

yni^^ +1. CI. F^^^^elL 



W^. A. SHERMAN, 

TROY, 




— DEALER IN- 



STOm, HEATERS AND RANGES. 



ROUND LAKE. 



97 



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13 CONORESS STREKT, 

TROY, N. Y. 



Fiet^re; FramsgiN 



Hicaec^ (flo^Mieqs. 



THE LARGEST STOCK AND THE CHEAPEST GOODS 
IN THE CITY. 



WM. H. YOUNG, 

BOOKSELLER, STATIONER 



J-V 




K iv.anuiacmrer 



8 & 9 FIRST, AND 214 RIVER STS., 



TROY, N. Y. 



Specialty made of Wedding and Visiting Cai'ds. 



98 



ROUND LAKE. 



n / rv RIVER 

^4U STREET 



RIVER 
STREET. 



FINEST STORE. ^4b 
LARGEST STOCK. LOWEST PRICES 



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OIAMOIVDS, JEWELRY, 

Fine American l^atches, 

Sterling Silver Novelties, 
Clocks, Bronzes and Fancy Ooods. 

By far the largest stock and finest assortment of the above 
goods to be found North of New York City. You can depend 
upon getting reliable goods, and always the best in the market, as 
we do not sell cheap goods but give the best value for the money. 

Quick Sales and Small Profits is our motto, consequently 
our goods are continually moving, and always new and fresh. 



246 



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The TRev 

UEWEL2ER, 



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STREET, 

Largest Repairing Department in Trov. 

Only Reliable, Skilled Workmen Employed. 



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AIVIERICAN WATCHES. 

Save Money and get the Best if you trade with SIIH, 

The Popular Trov Jeweler. 



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P. 6. 6URTIS. 



Laka AvbhuBj car, of Heddlng Avenue, 

^ 8 to 9 o'clock, A. M. 
Office Hours: -, i to 2 " p m. 

/ 7 to 8 " 



ROUND LAKE. 99 

C4N'DY 1 CONFECTIONS. 




M. D. Saxe, 

MANUFACTURER OF 

dij and Confections, 

Nos, 303 & 805 River Street, 

TROY, N. Y. 

Retail Store : 

No. 215 BROiDWAY, Between Second & T}?ird gts. 

funday fchools, Flairs, and Jocieties 

furnished with Candy and Confections, 
at wholesale prices, in plain or orna- 
mental, boxes, cornucopias, and packages. 

Phristmas ^ree handles, fixtures 
and Tinsels also supplied. 



ROUND LAKE. 



mTRMTOR.-^ AND ^ BUILDER, 



W. H. I^OSE, 



B-A^LLSTOINT S:F>-A., nST . "ST . 



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BUILDER OF THE GEORGE WEST MUSEUM, GRIFFIN INSTI- 
TUTE, GARNSEY HALL AND OTHER BUILDINGS 
AT ROUND LAKE. 



M. F. CUMMINGS, 



Jjpel^iteel;^ 



lO and 11 Times Buildins 



XROY, K. Y. 



ARCHITECT OF THE GEORGE WEST MUSEUM, GRIFFIN INSTI- 
TUTE, GARNSEY HALL AND OTHER BUILDINGS 
AT ROUND LAKE. 



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WOODLAWN. 




^his new and elegant House is located in one of the 
most desirable parts of the ^QWD Ii5?KE 6I^0aND^. 

It is large and substantial, and yet cosy and home- 
like. 

It is first-class in all its appointments. The rooms 
are generous and well-ventilated. There are accom- 
modations for one hundred guests. 

The Proprietor has had several years' experience in 
hotel life, and will spare no pains for the comfort 
of his guests. 

The W00DIiHWN is located near the depot; not a half 
minute's walk. Baggage of patrons transferred to 

• and from the depot free of charge. 

W00DIi^WN will be open for guests May 15th. Terms 
reasonable. 

For information regarding Rooms^ Board, &c., address 

C, R, RUy^ON, Proprietor. ' 

ROUND LAKE, N. Y. 



ROUND LAKE. I03 



New Crockery Store, 



J ESSUP & H ENDERSON, 

251 RivKR Strkkt, 

(BURDETT BUILDING), 

M^^\ Dinqei^ \ Tea ^et?, 

GLASSWARE, 

Chandeliers, 

Hanging, Bracket and Stand Lamps, 
Table Cutlery, 

Ice Cream Freezers, 

Bird Cages. 

THE CELEBRATED CROWN OIL STOVES. 

No Old Stock. All New Goods. 

FIRST-CLASS WARES AT LOWEST PRICES. 



With years of experience in this business in large wholesale and retail 
houses, we purchase our goods to sell at prices most favorable to all classes 
of purchasers. 

Visit our spacious warerooms and see our wares. 

251 RIVER STREET. 



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